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Keep Colorado local & independent staff that knew their product and had a wide variety of it. While some consumers talk about their need for convenience in one-stop shopping, that model is not actually the norm nationwide. In fact,

only seventeen states offer liquor sales in supermarkets. Perhaps more interestingly, seven states actually have state-owned liquor stores, and they are not the types of places you’d expect to have socialism managing the booze industry: Alabama, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia

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“If it ain’t broke, then don’t try to fix it.”

Everyone knows that’s the first rule for governing, or any decision making really. And that sagely advice runs through my mind every time another ballot issue about liquor sales and supermarkets comes up, like clockwork, around election time. This year Colorado ballots have three separate liquor-related propositions, and only one of them should even be considered by voters. Proposition 124 will remove the limit on licenses individuals can hold, allowing independent liquor store owners to expand. This change is necessary for parity between liquor stores and supermarkets, which have been selling beer since 2016 and are allowed more licenses than independent owners. The other two propositions, 125 and 126, are simply more unnecessary legislation attempting to correct a problem that doesn’t exist.

Colorodans appreciate and value the role of the independent business owner in supporting a vast market of craft breweries, wineries, and distilleries. There’s a reason the Mile High state is called “Beer’s Napa Valley,” and it’s related to the state being a bit of an incubator for independent businesses that appeal to and are supported by local markets.

Visiting one of Colorado’s brew pubs opens consumers to local specialties, and local liquor stores often stock neighboring businesses’ products for retail.

Thus, locally-owned businesses are able to support each other and the community. That model took a hit several years ago when the state allowed beer sales at supermarkets, and independent stores saw a noticeable drop in revenue. The sale of wine and spirits enabled small businesses to remain solvent.

As every Coloradan knows, local supermarkets always have a liquor store nearby, and for decades these businesses peacefully coexisted. However, the big three grocers of King Soopers, Safeway, and Walmart covet the livelihood of independent owners, and for many years have been trying to edge out the little guy. While Coloradans appreciate the local model, newcomers to the state who are used to beer, wine, and liquor sales in supermarkets are likely to support the national corporate chains because that’s what they’re used to. I know, having been one of those new residents twenty years ago, when I moved from Illinois.

I still recall wandering the aisle of my King Soopers, looking for some wine. When I asked a young clerk stocking the aisle, he just smiled and said, “You’re not from around here, are you?”

When that clerk pointed me across the parking lot to my local beverage store, I came to appreciate the value of an independent liquor store the minute I walked in and was greeted by a

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Herbert Hoover in his campaign ads back in 1928, used a political phrase that has made the history books.

Hoover’s ad stated, “Chicken in every pot” …and a “Car in every backyard.”

94 years later President Biden is promising to forgo student debts and releasing strategic oil reserves in an attempt to bring down the price of oil. An appeals court has blocked, for now, the student debt reduction and the price of oil has risen during the past week.

Hoover was elected and then the nation fell into a massive depression.

A hearty congratulations to all candidates participating in this election, regardless of political party and offices being sought.

It has become very challenging for anyone to run for public office with the rise of social media, the cost of campaigns, the negative advertising, the distortion of facts on television ads, and the apathy of voters towards politics.

Reminder of ancient Rome; free bread and daily games at the coliseum while the barbarians are at the gates.

My advice to voters is to ignore the inuendoes and look at what candidates say and wish to accomplish. What is their past performance?

Look at your vote as hiring the candidates to work for you and your families.

You should have received a ballot by the time this newspaper reaches your mailbox. I’m impressed with the design and layout of the ballot. It is very direct, good instructions on how to mark the ballot and drop off locations.

I think the choice for candidates is easier than all of the initiatives on the back pages. Here’s my brief take on the candidates: UNITED STATE SENATE JOE O’DEA, one of our own Greenwood Village residents, solid citizen, seems to be rather bi partisan on issues. Adopted, started poor, with little, and has a lot of sweat equity in his life with hard work to become a successful self-made man.

REPRESENTATIVE FOR CONGRESS STEVEN MONAHAN, military veteran, solid background, a vote to retire Nancy Pelosi.

GOVERNOR HEIDI GANAHL, she is a refreshing challenger with an excellent business background. Has a terrific Lt. Governor candidate

partner in Danny Moore.

SECRETARY OF STATE PAM ANDERSON, experienced with years of service as Jeffco County Clerk. Smart and experienced.

Great choice.

STATE TREASURER LANG SIAS, heard him speak at the State GOP Convention. Wise, experienced, solid candidate for the position.

ATTORNEY GENERAL: JOHN KELLNER, Marine officer, present 18th Judicial District Attorney, tough on crime, a no-nonsense law enforcement candidate. Probably a future Governor prospect.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION AT LARGE: Dan Maloit who is a former Green Beret with three children in public schools.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (District 6:) MOLLY LAMAR, Cherry Creek schools graduate, University of Colorado alumnus, kids in Creek school, and not afraid to speak up and stand up for better schools.

STATE SENATOR (District 27) TOM KIM, one of the best qualified candidates on the ballot. Brilliant, lawyer, pilot, business consultant, great listener, and has great future potential for higher office.

STATE REPRESENATIVE DAVE WOOLEVER, (District 61) Long-time career at Johnson and Wales University. Solid background. I live in his District. He is the only State Representative on my ballot.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE ( District 37) PAUL ARCHER, Centennial resident, strong family man, seeks common sense and sensible solutions. Fine gentleman, strong values, solid citizen STATE REPRESENATIVE (District 41) STEPHANIE HANCOCK, breath of fresh air in Aurora, US Air Force veteran, president of Aurora Cultural Arts District, mother, grandmother. *MORE STATE REPRESENTATIVES FORTHCOMING:

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*** JUDICIAL RETENTION QUESTIONS: Hard to judge their performances. Let’s find a better way to vote on judges. *** COUNTY OFFICES: COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MARK GOTTO AND BOB ROTH: both experienced city council members. Mark Gotto serving on Centennial city council and Bob Roth serving on Aurora city council. Strong training ground serving our largest cities. Vote for them in their respective districts.

Kudos to Nancy Sharpe and Nancy Jackson who have proven that opposite party members can work together. They have both been great commissioners.

Thank you ladies for your service and both moving on to our new health department leadership.

CLERK AND RECORDER CAROLINE CORNELL, let’s get the county offices open, with or without, appointments. A 24-year county resident and strong people’s advocate.

COUNTY TREASURER MARSHA BERZINS, fortunate to have this well qualified candidate seeking this position. Mayor ProTem in Aurora overseeing billion-dollar budgets for years. Outstanding!

COUNTY ASSESSOR BOB ANDREWS, decades of experience in real estate and comes with strong background in appraisal experience.

COUNTY SHERIFF KEVIN EDLING, military veteran with 27 years as top cop in Denver police department. Tough on crime, he will slow auto thefts in Arapahoe County.

Very experienced and he will make our neighborhoods and cities safer.

COUNTY CORONER KELLY LEAR M.D. long career of service to the county as Coroner; no reason to change. She is almost non-replaceable.

CHERRY HILLS CITY COUNCIL For the first time in history Cherry Hill has three candidates for mayor and city council contests in Districts 2,4 and 6.

MAYOR OF CHERRY HILLS RUSSELL STEWART, I endorsed Laura Christman in the last election. I told Russell I would support him in this election before the other two candidates entered the race. I honor my commitments. However, I’m a longtime friend of Katy Brown and endorsed her in the last election for city council. I have felt that Katy should run for higher state office with my full support. A warm welcome to Jenn Diffendal, a spirited candidate with a strong emphasis on public safety.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 2: EARL HOELLEN, great institutional memory on Cherry Hills Village, experienced in local government, good common sense.

Can’t go wrong with Earl.

DISTRICT 4 SUSAN MAGUIRE, 22-year resident, understands Cherry Hills Land Preserve issues, nice manner and safety minded.

DISTRICT 6 TOM CONROY, 31year resident who likes Cherry Hills the way it is now. Doesn’t want to make many changes. Recommends improving transparency in city decisions.

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Reverend Martin Niemoller “In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak for me!”

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29th Annual Western Fantasy benefits Volunteers of America

BY SCOTTIE IVERSON

Western Fantasy, the glamorous party created

by Sharon Magness Blake and Jean Galloway decades ago has not only survived, but flourished. The powerful philanthropists wanted something unique and fun to attend while raising funds for the Colorado Branch of Volunteers of America (VOA). Each year the multi-faceted event, catered

by Epicurean (beef tenderloin and green chili ravioli this year), culminates with a charismatic entertainer.

Justin Moore brought tremendous energy and captivated the audience with his traditional country sound.

Co-Founder and Guardian of Western Fantasy Sharon Magness Blake on Thunder with hubby Ernie Blake (left) and the entourage

Photos by Scottie Iverson

LEFT: Mariner and Megan Kemper were honored with the VOA Humanitarian Award RIGHT: Charlie and Judy McNeil with Celeste and Joe O’Dea LEFT: Western Fantasy Chair Pat Robinson and Emcee Ed Greene, 9NEWS

LEFT: VOA President & CEO David Schunk, Board Chair Charlie Macquire, Jr. and Rich Walker Steven Monahan, Edie Marks, Anna and John Sie and daughter Michelle Sie Whitten

Eunice Kim and Western Fantasy Corporate Chair Gary Lutz

THANK YOU!

To all our wonderful sponsors for making this yearʼs Western Fantasy such a huge success.

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Volunteers of America helps the most vulnerable in Colorado Western Fantasy is a signature event of Volunteers of America with steering committees, patron partners, sponsors and 40 volunteers to produce a fundraiser of this magnitude. Where there is a need, VOA finds a way with dozens of programs and services across our state. For further information: www.voacolorado.org

Broncos cheerleaders formed a path

Justin Klomp at the helm of Trice Jewelers – sponsor of the popular Surprise Boxes

Photos by Scottie Iverson

Adrienne and Dean Singleton (seated) with Dean’s sister Western Fantasy Chair Pat Robinson (in back of Adrienne) and family

Featured entertainer Justin Moore and his band rocked The National Western Events Center

Dr. Ben Galloway and wife Western Fantasy Co-Founder Jean Galloway, Scott Coors and hubby Dr. David Hurt

“Western Fantasy is my favorite event of the year.

VOA Colorado services span Colorful Colorado in so many ways!”

- Pat Robinson, Western Fantasy chair

Immediate Past Board Chair Faye Washington, Arlene Mohler Johnson and Denise Kenny Snyder Kevin Edling, Lisa and Tom Corley

Barry and Arlene Hirschfeld, Kalleen and Bob Malone

SAVE THE DATE! Western Fantasy 30 will be here on

Saturday, October 21, 2023

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Koelbel and Company builds communities

BY FREDA MIKLIN STAFF WRITER

When people hear the name, Koelbel and Company, CEO Buz Koelbel hopes that they think of a company that builds communities.

He told The Villager, “We are residential and commercial developers who become part of the communities Buz Koelbel where we build by giving back to the community.” A perfect example is the Koelbel Library at the corner of Orchard Road and Holly Street, adjacent to Koelbel’s premier community, The Preserve at Greenwood Village.

Walter Koelbel, Sr., Buz’ father, who founded the company in 1952 and with whom he worked side by side for three decades, had a unique ability to “find good property,” Buz told us. As a result, they owned three of the four corners at that intersection—where they built The Preserve, where they developed what is now the King Soopers shopping center, and where the library and two senior living facilities are now situated. In about 1988, as they were finally about to develop The Preserve, Buz told us, the Koelbels “heard that Arapahoe County Library District was looking for a location for a new central library facility.

We thought, we’re creating a family community at The Preserve, so what better amenity for families than a library?” Koelbel and Company gifted the land to the Library District and was also instrumental in bringing in Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store from 1974 to 2015, “who consulted with us, as part of the strategic design team, about how we could create places in the library where people would want to stay and read and gather…We wanted community rooms for anyone to be able to use.” Today, that library has four meeting rooms, including one with a capacity of 108 people, a forum theater that seats 39, and three study rooms that hold up to six people.

“As part of the strategic design,” Buz told us, “My parents commissioned George Lundeen to create a piece of art,” referring to the bronze statue of a mother reading to and with her children that sits outside the library’s front door. Buz also pointed out that, “The Koelbel Library remains one of the busiest community gathering places through today, despite the fact that libraries can’t compete with home computers for conducting research.

Something was created there that transcends the digital world such that, to this day, it enjoys a remarkable amount of use and popularity.” Buz also credits Ed

This bronze artwork of a mother reading to and with her children, created by George Lundeen, was commissioned by Walter and Gene Koelbel. It sits just outside the Koelbel Library.

and Kay Phillipson for their dedication to the library project. Ed was a reporter for The Villager Newspaper.

Of all the projects Koelbel and Company has developed, Buz is most proud of The Preserve at Greenwood Village. It took ten years and numerous stops and starts to get it approved, but, he told us, “I knew it was going to be a great community for families and kids and I was committed to getting it built.” Thirty-two years after Koelbel and Company sold its first lot on the 540acre property, he remains as steadfast about its place as a unique family community as he was in the beginning.

Many people know that the company struggled to gain approval from the City of Greenwood Village to build The Preserve because neighbors to the east and west wanted it to remain as open space.

What many people don’t know is that when Buz Koelbel finally decided that the people of Greenwood Village, not its city council, should make the final decision about The Preserve, he personally knocked on between 3,000 and 4,000 doors of GV residents himself to ask for their support and answer their questions, eventually winning approval of the voters for the development,

which includes 120 acres of open space in addition to almost 400 homes on lots with no perimeter fences and another 136 patio homes in the Bateleur section of the neighborhood. Koelbel and Company sold the last lot in The Preserve this year. Buz calls the neighborhood, “My pride and joy, because of what we created, how tough it was to get it done, and how we got it done.”

Another interesting, lit-

at me and said, ‘Buz, this plan is spectacular but you’re going to rue the day that you decided not to let people put in fences.’ I thanked them for their input, but I never doubted my decision to not allow fences. They’re ugly and they don’t create a neighborhood.

They get in the way of having connections between people. If you take the fences down, you take the barriers between people down. I was certain I didn’t want

tle-known piece of the history of The Preserve that Buz shared with us is that, before he even had the election, he was confident enough in his plan that he created “a focus group of all the top realtors in the area that sold all the big homes.” He showed them his plan and told them that they should expect to see lots available to sell there soon. After they looked at it, he told us, “The three top brokers looked

there to be fences and I also wasn’t going to build a brick wall around The Preserve. We decided to use landscaping around the perimeter so it looks more open and more inviting. When I told the realtors that I wasn’t going to change my mind about fences, they said I’d regret that decision. I said I didn’t think so, because that’s how you develop a community. That’s exactly how it turned out. Everyone there got

to know all their neighbors on all sides and behind them. Kids played together and long-term bonds were formed between families. At the end of the day, it’s one of the premier communities in the entire metro area.”

Although most people think of Koelbel and Company as being a successful developer, it wasn’t always easy. Buz told us, “When markets got tough and we were struggling, going from 140 employees in 2007 to nine in 2009, I would drive through The Preserve on weekends because it uplifted me. Even though we had no sales activity for probably 18 months, I decided we wouldn’t fold our tent and lower our prices to make sales. I believed strongly that we would survive the recession. I knew the value was there if I could just wait out the economy. We’re a legacy generational company.

I wasn’t going to let those two or three years destroy what I had personally worked so hard to put into place. It was a very tough time financially for us, but I felt like I owed it to the people who already lived there and to the Perry family (of the Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve), who had stuck with us, to wait it out.”

We asked Buz what the keys to the success of his company have been. He told us he learned from his father, “Patience is genius. Don’t overreact in a tough market. Another thing that has been key is a constant focus on innovation. Our innovation started with Pinehurst Country Club, our flagship legacy community. A master-planned golf course community was not commonplace in the early 1960’s, particularly in the area of town where we built Pinehurst. The success of Pinehurst solidified the importance of innovation in what we do, and since then, we’ve consistently engaged in unique and different projects. The other important lesson I learned from my dad that I’ve never forgotten is to always take a long-term approach. That is how we have viewed everything we’ve done.”

Buz never planned to have a third generation come into the company, but it happened organically. His three sons, Carl, Walt, and Dean started their careers in Washington, D.C., Kansas City and Chicago, but eventually decided they wanted to be a part of the family business. Today, Carl is the Chief Operating Officer, Walt is focused on office and commercial, and Dean is in leasing, along with Catalyst, a cutting-edge, health-tech industry integrator that Koelbel developed in Denver’s RiNo District and is now replicating for the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

A philosophical value that has played an essential role in the success that Koelbel and Company continues to enjoy after 70 years, Buz told us, is that they are “agnostic to the product type.” Their values of community

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building, constant innovation, and unwavering long-term commitment to their projects apply to everything they do. In addition to residential development in the metro area and in the mountains, where Koelbel built Rendezvous Colorado, a 1,110-acre master-planned resort community in Grand County’s Fraser Valley, and Catalyst in RiNo, Koelbel is partnering with DeNOVO Solutions, LLC to create “INNOVUS, a state-of-the-art secured facility capable of meeting the expanding needs of the private defense contractors around Buckley space force base in Aurora, Colorado.”

The strongly held value of community is always top of mind. Koelbel and Company’s “low-income housing division is executing its tenth project, more than any other private developer in the state over the past 10 years.”

That commitment shows up in the family’s extensive philanthropy, as well. Buz told us that his parents and his grandparents were all civic-minded, and most of the family’s philanthropic efforts have always been around children. Besides the Arapahoe Library District, some of the

Walt, Dean, Buz and Carl Koelbel. organizations that have benefited greatly from the Koelbels’ generosity are the University

of Colorado, The Denver Zoo and the Sewall Child Development Center, which named its

building at 940 Fillmore Street in Denver, “The Koelbel Building” in honor of Buz’ parents, particularly his mother Gene, who they describe as having “served Sewall’s mission for over 60 years as a board member,” continuing the legacy of commitment and support of the organization begun by Gene’s parents—Buz’ grandparents— in the 1940s.

Finally, we asked Buz if there was anyone he want-

ed to thank at this time in his career. To our sweet surprise, he named this newspaper’s publisher, Bob Sweeney.

Said Buz, “In some ways, Bob was like another father to me. When things got tough while I was trying hard to get The Preserve built, it was Bob that would encourage me to keep going and I’ve always been grateful to him for that.” fmiklin.villager@gmail.com

“Patience is genius.

Don’t overreact in a tough market. Take a long-term approach. That was how we viewed everything that we did.”

– Buz Koelbel

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Bennet and O’Dea appear together at candidate forum

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENT REPORTER

On October 19, the National Council of Jewish Women Colorado Section held a Candidates Forum 2022 at the BMH-BJ Synagogue in Denver. Candidates for state and national races were invited to participate.

Although all candidates were able to have booths to speak to voters, only those running for statewide office or the U.S. Congress were invited to participate in a question-and- answer forum.

Scott Levin, local head of the Anti-Defamation League, moderated.

In a rare joint appearance, incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Joe O’Dea appeared together to answer questions.

On the challenges of solving the immigration problem, Bennet pointed back to 2013 when, he said, “I was part of the Gang of Eight who wrote a bipartisan immigration bill that got 68 votes in the Senate, but unfortunately, never even got a vote in the House of Representatives.” He continued, “It would have passed because it had the elements that the American people want for a successful reform of our immigration system, including a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people that are here that are undocumented, bringing people out of the shadows.” He went on to explain that many Republicans, including the late Senator John McCain, wanted very much to solve the immigration problem, but that, “After Donald Trump rolled down the escalator (in 2015) in Trump Tower calling Mexicans rapists as the kickoff to his campaign, then won the presidency, that created a very difficult situation for Washington Republicans (who wanted to solve immigration). I hope they will overcome it.”

On the subject of immigration, O’Dea told the moderator, “I agree with Senator Bennet. I think there is a bipartisan solution out there. I hope to lead that solution when I’m elected in November… I think we do need to secure the border. There are a lot of pieces of that that have to do with our national security— fentanyl coming over in record levels, human trafficking, cartels up here in our cities taking over.

When you talk to the police departments, they are screaming to get this border under control…a bipartisan effort...It has to do with making sure we give citizenship to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) kids. They shouldn’t have to wonder about that… We’re the land of immigrants. We’re the land of opportunity. We need to make sure that opportunity is for everyone. If it’s me in the Senate, I’m going to lead that discussion.” He added that it is especially important to his family, including his wife, whose grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico.

From left to right, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, ADL’s Scott Levin, GOP candidate Joe O’Dea

When the moderator turned to the subject of how to help the needy in our community, O’Dea said, “I believe in my heart and soul that we all have a duty to give back. I lead an effort to put together a homeless shelter in north Denver at 7th and Lipan…

“It has to do with making sure we give citizenship to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) kids.

They shouldn’t have to wonder about that… We’re the land of immigrants.

We’re the land of opportunity.

We need to make sure that opportunity is for everyone.

If it’s me in the Senate, I’m going to lead that discussion.”

– Joe O’Dea

Haven of Hope Homeless Day Shelter. Myself and a bunch of contractors got together and we funded it. We got it off the ground. It currently serves about 700 meals a day to make sure that that community is taken care of. That’s a responsibility that I feel.”

He continued, “The other thing that I’m really encouraged about is the discussion around school choice. If we want to create this land of opportunity, we have to put kids in a situation where they can have the ben-

efit of a great education. I’m a product of that. I was in public school, not doing so well as a kid. My parents made the decision to move me to a parochial school where I got a little bit of discipline and got refocused and a great education. They also gave me a dishwashing job. I never did see one of the paychecks.

My dad kept them all to pay that tuition. I think if we want a monumental change in poverty, in opportunity here in the United States, we’ve got to get behind school choice and make sure that every parent has that choice for their child, regardless of their zip code. Let’s put those kids in a situation where they can be successful.”

In his response to the question of how best to help the needy, Senator Bennet talked about the importance of “economic opportunities,” saying, “I’m a huge believer that our democracy is incredibly fragile because people don’t see economic opportunity in this economy. For 50 years, we have had an economy that has only benefited the top 10% of Americans and not anybody else. That didn’t happen by accident. It started with Reagan’s supply-side trickle-down economics, (including) outsourcing. And it’s why we have the worst income inequality since the 1920s. We have the lowest economic mobility of any industrialized country in the world. It’s why I meet people every day in Colorado who are working incredibly hard, but no matter how hard they work, they can’t afford some combination of housing, healthcare, higher education, or early childhood education. The reason that that is so dangerous to a democracy is because, it’s in moments like that, that people stop seeing that sense of opportunity, and inevitably, in human history, somebody shows up and says, ‘I alone can fix it, as Trump said. You don’t need a democracy. You don’t need the rule of law. You should expect your public sector and your private sector to be hopelessly corrupt.

That’s the dark vision that he ran on. That’s the dark vision that he won more votes the second time than the first time. To deal with that, we need to create an economy that, when it grows, it grows for everybody, not just the people at the very top. I think we have an incredible opportunity to do that.”

We need to realize that, as a nation, our education system, from a lack of preschool and a lack of quality in K-12 and the expense of higher education, is reinforcing the income inequality that I just spoke about.

It’s not liberating kids from their circumstances.

One of the things we could do is guarantee that every single kid that graduates from high school in this country has the skills to earn a living wage, not just the minimum wage.

That would transform the lives of millions of Americans and it would transform the American economy.”

Sen. Michael Bennet He continued, “In the meantime… If we care to, we can cut childhood poverty in this country almost in half. Last year, because we put my bill, The American Family Act, into the American Rescue Plan, we cut childhood poverty in America almost in half. We cut hunger in the United States by one-fourth… One of

the reasons I want to go back (to the U.S. Senate) is that I think we should make that permanent. We are the richest country in the world and we have the third-highest childhood poverty rate in the industrialized world.

Kids in Colorado are suffering from that needlessly.”

On the subject of school choice, Bennett said, “When I was the superintendent of schools, I think our district (Denver) probably led the country in terms of urban districts with school choice.” He continued, “I believe we have to revolutionize our education system. I don’t think choice is nearly enough to do it. I think Betsy DeVos demonstrated that in Michigan.

If you have no accountability, it’s an incredibly destructive force for children. We need to realize that, as a nation, our education system, from a lack of preschool and a lack of quality in K-12 and the expense of higher education, is reinforcing the income inequality that I just spoke about.

It’s not liberating kids from their circumstances. One of the things we could do is guarantee that every single kid that graduates from high school in this country has the skills to earn a living wage, not just the minimum wage. That would transform the lives of millions of Americans and it would transform the American economy.”

Levin asked O’Dea about his motivation to say publicly that he plans to “actively campaign against Donald Trump” if the former president tries to run again in 2024, resulting in Trump issuing a statement saying, “MAGA doesn’t vote for stupid people with big mouths.” O’Dea said, “I’m a contractor. I’m not a politician. I got into this race because I genuinely care about the direction that this country is headed and I’m worried about the policies that we have. I said what I said. I meant it. I don’t think he (Trump) should run.

I don’t think Joe Biden should run. I think people in America deserve a different decision to be made in 2024. There’s a lot of talent on the Republican bench— Ron DeSantis, Pompeo, Haley. I really like Tim Scott when he’s talking about education. I think there’s an opportunity to take the country forward. We can’t afford to go backwards… Let’s get focused on the things that matter to working Americans-- runaway inflation, the price of gas, getting our energy system back in place, making sure that the land of opportunity is here for all working Americans.”

Asked how he could bring the GOP and all Americans together, O’Dea said, “Elections have consequences. I believe (ours is a) great election system. I’ll take the results. I’ll challenge Sen. Bennet, loser buys the beer, mine is going to have ice in it. We’ll sit down and will move the country forward… We need to have a lot of faith in our system. It’s the best in the world. Let’s rely on it and let’s move the country forward. That’s why I got in this

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We caught up with State Treasurer candidate Lang Sias and Pam Anderson, running for Secretary of State

race.”

Levin asked Bennet, “After serving for a couple of terms, what do you think makes a good Senator, a good leader for Colorado?” Bennet responded, “I think what makes a good leader for Colorado is writing bills in Colorado, not writing bills in Washington.” If you look at the work I did on the infrastructure package-- the $60 billion that we passed for broadband-- I literally wrote that bill on the western slope of Colorado” with help from experts in broadband…

The billions of dollars we got for forestry…because of their importance…And $4 billion to address the terrible drought that we have in the Colorado River basin. We need real leadership on that question because we are going to be in negotiation between the upper basin and the lower basin states. I feel like I’m in a good position to lead that conversation. I’ve disagreed with the President on college debt policy, on what they tried to do to our solar industry, which we saved by pushing back on the administration. We do not need somebody in Washington who is coming to repeat what they’ve heard on cable TV, whether it’s the talking points of Fox or MSNBC, that is not the leadership that this country needs. I have not contributed to the chaos that’s back there (in Washington I have not contributed to the partisanship that’s back there.

In closing, O’Dea said, “Look at where we are today. We have record inflation, record gas prices, record grocery prices. We’ve got record crime here in Colorado… We’ve got fentanyl coming across the border in wheelbarrows, killing Americans. We lost 107,000 Americans last year, almost 1,900 here in Colorado to

(all) overdoses. It’s tragic. Is that the America that we want? Is that what we expect for our kids?

It’s time for a change. It’s time for new leadership. That’s why I got into this race.”

Asked why people should re-elect him, Bennet said, “I think I should be reelected because the stakes are incredibly high. Our democracy is at real risk, this is not a joke. The first trip that I’ve taken since Covid, I went to the Middle East and to Europe. Every democracy that I visited, people are talking about

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is running for reelection on November 8.

the rise of political extremism.

People are talking about the rise of anti-Semitism. People are talking about how social media is dividing citizens from one another, making it impossible for democracies to make decisions.

My constituents here in Colorado, whether Democrats or Republicans or members of neither party, came to worry during the Trump administration that chaos was all we could expect out of our democracy, that we couldn’t do better than that. They’ve seen

State Treasurer Dave Young, running for re-election, visited with Meg Froelich, also running for re-election in Colorado HD3.

that in the last 14 months, we demonstrated that we can do better. We can legislate to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill, a bipartisan postal reform bill, a bipartisan veterans’ bill, the CHIPS Act (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors), and one bill that wasn’t bipartisan, the incredibly significant climate bill that Colorado’s fingerprints are all over because of the work that I’ve been doing for 10 years there. So, I think that the stakes are enormously high. In my view, whether you’re a senator or a schoolteacher or a contractor or whatever, you owe it to the next generation of Americans to make sure that we are transferring a democracy that you can be proud of and an economy that you can be proud of and that we reestablish America’s role in the world.”

Pam Anderson, GOP candidate for Colorado Secretary of State (SOS), told us she believed she was endorsed in her race for SOS by the Denver Post because of her record as Jefferson County Clerk. JeffCo, she said, “Is incredibly politically diverse, and my endorsements came from a wide variety of people; I don’t see the job as a political stepping stone. It’s really my life’s work. I don’t want to go to Washington, D.C.” She went on to describe what she believes has been a lack of stability in the office of the current SOS, Democrat Jena Griswold, explaining, “There’s been at least three deputy secretaries, we are on our fifth chief of staff, there’s been more than three communications directors and legislative liaisons.” She attributed the high turnover of top staff to a “lack of leadership,” adding, “In my experience, people join these types of jobs as a mission for public service for Colorado, not a mission for a politician and their future.” She added that “the instability and lack of focus has resulted in mistakes being made” in that office.

Griswold did not attend the forum.

Phil Weiser, incumbent Colorado Attorney General who is facing 18th Judicial District DA John Kellner in the November election, said that the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade was “one of the worst decisions that the U.S. Supreme Court ever made,” and that his opponent in this election “believes in that decision,” which he cited as an example of the differences between he and Kellner. He added that, “The implications of the Dobbs decision on people’s lives are only beginning to be experienced,” and that, “Every single decision where a doctor and a pregnant woman look at this question is a hard conversation, it’s a personal conversation, it’s a health care conversation,” on which the government should not dictate what should happen.

He also talked about the rise in hate crimes, often egged on by social media, and the importance of remaining wary of their impact.

In closing, he said that it matters who the Attorney General is in the areas of gun safety, reproductive rights, water, and

Adam Frisch is challenging one-term incumbent Lauren Boebert in CD3 in western Colorado.

Photos by Freda Miklin

consumer rights. He pointed to endorsements he has received from several major publications, who have said that, “Colorado’s water and our future depend on an Attorney General who can lead on water,” and, “Our rights as consumers are protected by the Attorney General.”

Kellner did not attend the forum.

Adam Frisch, former Aspen City Council member who describes himself as a moderate Democrat, is a candidate for Colorado Congressional District three on the western slope. He told The Villager that he decided to challenge one-term incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert because she won in 2020 “with only 51% of the vote, and she didn’t even win her home county (because) those who know her don’t like her.”

He continued, “I think 40% of Republicans want their party back…Rational Republicans are furious about what’s going on.”

He pointed to having received endorsements from Russell George, former GOP Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives and GOP State Senator Don Coram. Frisch said he wanted to “focus on the job,” unlike Boebert, who he said is in the “angertainment” industry that is causing a lot of the problems in our country.” He continued, “I’m pro-domestic energy production. That’s really important, especially in Colorado. I don’t like it when any President has to show up in Saudi Arabia or Venezuela or Iran and ask for help when we produce clean energy, clean coal here…We’re doing a great job with solar and wind.

We need to do more of that, but there’s also some traditional energy production we should be working on.”

Boebert did not attend the

forum.

Barb Kirkmeyer, GOP candidate for Colorado’s new Congressional District Eight, facing Democrat Dr. Yadira Caraveo, a pediatrician, said, “We are in troubled times,” pointing to inflation and the “need to get our federal government under control and stop the relentless spending.”

When Levin asked her what areas of government she would cut back, Kirkmeyer said, “I think we need to look at pretty much everything.” Moving on to another subject, Kirkmeyer said that welfare used to be funded as a block grant to states, who could decide how it should be distributed and under what conditions and restrictions. “I think we need to get back to that,” she said, adding, “The Temporary Aid to Needy Families program used to include, “work participation rates, a five-year clock that folks could be on that program…I think some of those things need to come back.” She also pointed to “individual responsibility contracts” that were part of the program “so that people understood that they were responsible for what they were doing in their own lives…to get

Barb Kirkmeyer is hoping to be elected as the first Member of Congress from Colorado’s new CD8.

education…to help them get off of welfare.” Kirkmeyer closed by saying that her six grandchildren “deserve to grow up in the type of America in which I grew up…that valued and rewarded hard work and gave everyone a fair shot at success and an opportunity to prosper. My grandkids don’t have that. Neither do yours…That’s why I’m running for office.”

Caraveo did not attend the forum.

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Greeting voters was HD37 GOP candidate Paul Archer and his campaign manager, Centennial City Council Member Robyn Carnes.

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Vote November 8 for Joe O’Dea running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent all of Colorado Joe is focused on reducing inflation and crime.

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FIRST MOM GOVERNOR Heidi Ganahl,

f ounder of the nation’s largest pet care

franchise, Camp Bow Wow, is running against Jared Polis to be Governor of Colorado. Heidi is a mom of four beautiful young children and a mom on a mission to restore common sense in Colorado. As a CU Regent for the past six years, Heidi has been a champion for students, free speech, school safety, and affordability.

Under Jared Polis, Colorado’s crime and drug use epidemic has risen to unprecedented levels. Colorado has the second highest drug addiction rate and the sixth highest suicide rate amongst kids in the country; 60% of Colorado children cannot read, write, or do math at grade level. “Our kids are in a crisis!” is often heard at large rallies around the state, in support of Heidi Ganahl for Governor.

Colorado’s schools are in rapid decline, with the most affected being those in the major Colorado metro areas (Jefferson County, Denver County, Arapahoe County, El Paso County, etc). Including parents in what happens in the classroom and school-choice is a top priority for Ganahl. Teachers and other public servants have been hamstrung by spending on high-level administrators.

When Heidi defeats Jared Polis on November 8th, she will become the first mom to occupy the highest office in the state - VOTE FOR HEIDI TODAY! To learn more about Heidi Ganahl and her candidacy for Governor, visit www.heidiforgov.com.

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VOTE

The Common Sense Voices for Arapahoe County BOB ANDREWS for Assessor

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Experience matters and Bob is the ONLY candidate with appraisal experience, including more than 25 years in the industry. He will ensure fair and accurate assessments and supports increasing the Senior Homestead Tax Exemption to help our elderly and most vulnerable given these hard financial times.

Paid for by Andrews for Arapahoe County Assessor. Registered Agent Marge Klein

MARSHA BERZINS for Treasurer

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Marsha is a small business owner and public servant with real-world experience. She puts people over politics and will advise taxpayers of their rights. Marsha is a proven leader that is accessible, accountable, and transparent.

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RON BOUCHARD for Coroner

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Ron has over 30 years of university science research laboratory and medical field experience. His expertise includes microscopy and digital imaging of tissue and cellular biology, equipment and facilities management, and systems operations. Ron will bring closure and peace surrounding the loss of a loved one and represent the living but speak for the dead.

Paid for by The Committee to Elect Ron J Bouchard Jr. Registered Agent Ron Bouchard

CAROLINE CORNELL for Clerk & Recorder

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As your next Clerk, Caroline will check partisan politics at the door. She is an experienced leader who will serve the public efficiently by expanding services in Arapahoe County. Caroline will work for ALL citizens building trust and confidence in election administration.

Paid for by the Committee to Elect Caroline Cornell. Registered Agent Karen Wilson

KEVIN EDLING for Sheriff

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Kevin is a military veteran and law enforcement command officer who will hold criminals accountable and will be fair and compassionate. Kevin will work to reverse this crime blizzard (especially auto thefts) and increase safety for our schools and residents.

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VOTE NOV. 8TH 2022!

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Opportunity. Prosperity. Safety.

Vote Tom Kim for Senate District 27 November 8th General Election TomKimforColorado.com

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Junior League of Denver 43rd Annual Mile High Holiday Mart, Nov. 4-6 Shop local while supporting women and families in Denver!

Get an early start on your holiday shopping at the 43rd Annual Mile High Holiday Mart, presented by the Junior League of Denver (JLD), Fri., Nov. 4 through Sun., Nov. 6 at Gates Field House on the University of Denver campus. Immerse yourself in the holiday spirit at the League’s largest fundraising event featuring select merchants with unique, high-quality merchandise, a central location, and a fun, festive environment.

“We are thrilled to welcome attendees to shop at our 43rd annual event,” said Lindsey Talafuse, 2022-2023 JLD President. “Our volunteers work tirelessly to put on a phenomenal show while raising much-needed funds to support women and families experiencing systemic poverty in Denver.”

The show features local and national vendors offering a wide variety of products, including housewares, specialty food items, jewelry, apparel for women, men and children, pet products, and much more! A large percentage of the merchants are local, so shoppers are supporting Colorado businesses.

Additionally, the League’s newest cookbook, Centennial Celebrations, will be available for $20 at

the show (retails for $29.95 + tax).

Released in July 2019, Centennial Celebrations is the perfect holiday gift! Packed with the colorful flavors of the Centennial State and honoring JLD’s 100th anniversary, Centennial Celebrations includes more than 200 thoughtfully selected and thoroughly tested recipes for every season and occasion.

The creative menus, recipes, and entertaining tips will inspire you to cook, connect, and celebrate…

Colorado style! Copies of the League’s five other award-winning cookbooks will be available with special show pricing as well.

Proceeds support the JLD’s efforts to empower women to become civic leaders and impactful community volunteers, as well as its efforts to disrupt the cycle of systemic poverty for women and families in Denver. The JLD has been addressing the community’s greatest needs for more than 100 years and started many impactful Denver institutions. Learn more here 2022 MILE HIGH HOLIDAY MART DETAILS EVENT WEBSITE: JLD.org PUBLIC SHOPPING HOURS: Friday, November 4: 1 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Saturday, November 5: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday, November 6: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS: $10 in advance at JLD.org or at the door

All current and past Mayors of Centennial and Greenwood Village support Mark Gotto for Arapahoe County Commissioner!

CENTENNIAL

GREENWOOD VILLAGE

MAYOR GEORGE LANTZ MAYOR STEPHANIE PIKO FORMER MAYOR CATHY NOON FORMER MAYOR RON RAKOWSKI FORMER MAYOR RANDY PYE FORMER MAYOR NANCY SHARPE

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Colorado is a HOT MESS!

It’s time to elect a Community Leader with a solution-focused track record.

Paul has spent forty-plus years working collaboratively with all people, regardless of political ideology, to get things done. We need his leadership, experience and wisdom at this critical time for our state.

Elect Paul Archer to be YOUR VOICE Visit www.ArcherForColorado.com PAID FOR ARCHER FOR COLORADO. REGISTERED AGENT: ANDY ARCHER

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Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain & the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Proudly Announce the 2023 Inductees to the Colorado Business Hall of Fame Colorado Business Hall of Fame laureates are selected for their enduring and innovative professional contributions to Colorado, inspirational and ethical acumen, and philanthropic endeavors.

Bill Berger

Mary Pat Link

Jay Anthony Precourt

Frederick Ross

Steve Schuck

Save the Date:

Mark Smith

Colorado Business Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Monday, February 6, 2023 Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center Presented by UMB Bank

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Here are my endorsements for the 2022 election Edie Marks Because I love my country and the state of Colorado

HEIDI GANAHL FOR GOVERNOR

JOE O’DEA FOR SENATE

STEVE MONAHAN

State Senate District 27 candidate Tom Kim is pictured with his wife Rebecca, their two daughters, and the family dog.

Tom Kim wants to be a state senator to make a difference

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENT REPORTER

Tom Kim is a member of the Roundup Riders of the Rockies, “an organization dedicated to the perpetuation of the Western Tradition associated with the relationship between the American Cowboy and his horse.” He is also qualified to ride with the Mounted Patrol Unit of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. In his day job, Kim is a former bankruptcy lawyer who now works as a consultant to help troubled businesses get back on a strong financial footing.

He is running for Colorado State Senate District 27 because he wants to help our state government “do a better job than it’s doing now.” He told The Villager, “We never go back and ask, what should government be doing? Are there things that we should trim out of the budget? I want to reduce programs. They’re always getting bigger.” He continued, “Whenever there’s a new initiative, for example, beefing up law enforcement, instead of adding more money to the budget, I’d like to see us reallocate funds that are being spent in an area where we have not seen the intended results.”

As a state senator, Kim would use the skills he brings to businesses with whom he consults. In those situations,

there often aren’t additional resources available with which to solve problems, so he finds a way to better utilize the assets they have. Kim has helped entities in manufactured housing, construction, medical products, technology, health care, transportation, and natural resources, and even a charter school, giving him direct experience that he can use with the state budget.

Kim decided to run for office because he was “frustrated with where we are in this state” and believes “that the problems we have right now are the direct result of policy decisions that have been made” in areas including rising crime. He believes that it is difficult to recruit law enforcement officers because of the widespread belief that they could be subject to personal financial liability for doing their job, including making instantaneous decisions in dangerous situations, even though the applicable statute actually provides an extremely narrow set of circumstances when that could occur, including requiring the officer’s employer determining that the office knowingly acted outside the law. Still, he points out, “Perception is reality,” and the reality is that dozens of local police departments are experiencing difficulty finding new recruits. He is also concerned that the leadership of some law enforcement agencies may be viewed as

not supporting their officers.

If elected to the state Senate, Kim’s goal is to find a legislative solution to this problem that would result in increased policing and lower crime.

Overall, Kim believes in limited government. Although he agrees that gun control and gun safety are important, he does not think we needed the new Office of Gun Violence Prevention, recently added to the state Department of Public Health and Environment “to administer a grant program for organizations to conduct community-based gun violence intervention initiatives,” including, “creating and maintaining a resource bank as a repository for data, research, and statistical information regarding gun violence in Colorado,” pursuant to HB211299.

He also believes that “the lack of progress in oil and gas permitting” is due to the fact that the state, “pushed that regulation (of oil and gas) down to the cities, and now every city is dealing with their group of activists,” when the decisions in this area are actually a matter of statewide concern.

Tom Kim will face Tom Sullivan in the race for the open seat in State Senate District 27 in November. Sullivan has served two terms in the state House. fmiklin.villager@gmail. com

FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 6 CROW MUST GO!

John Kellner for Attorney General

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Cherry Hills Village Candidates

More highlights from the CHV Candidate Forum

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENT REPORTER

The Villager Newspaper, together with the League of Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties and the South Metro Denver Chamber held a forum for candidates for Cherry Hills Villager Mayor and City Council on October 10 at Kent Denver School. We published highlights from that event in last week’s Villager. Here are more of candidates’ answers to the questions presented.

To the question of what are the duties of the mayor and why are you the best choice, first to respond was Jenn Diffendal, who said, “My key priorities as future mayor are championing public safety, increasing cell phone coverage, fiscal tran sparency, and aggressively seeking new revenue sources in the forms of pub-

Rules of lic-private partnerships “My key priorities Order, and appear and grants,” as future mayor to on behalf of adding, “I believe my are championing the city at ceremonial unparalleled public safety, events. The experience most imand voice increasing portant duty, is needed cell phone however, as we navisaid, “is gate through coverage, fiscal he to establish these challenges.” transparency, relationships with other Stewart, focusing on and aggressively local mayors Arapathe question, seeking new and hoe County responded revenue sources commissionthat most of so I meet the duties of in the forms of ers, frequently the mayor that are outpublic-private with (other local mayors lined in the City Charter partnerships and in the area) and we work are actually grants.” on projects performed – Jenn Diffendal together,” by the city noting that manager, he is “always advocating leaving the mayor to prefor the interests of CHV.” side over meetings, requirBrown had a different ing knowledge of Robert’s

view, saying that the CHV mayor, “doesn’t do much,” because, “the city council holds all the power.” She continued, “The role of the mayor is not to be an activist, is not to have a personal agenda. The mayor doesn’t even vote except in the case of a tie. The mayor can’t give raises or cut taxes that fund open space or unilaterally take a policy position on behalf of the city, all things my opponents have promised to do.” She continued, “What the mayor can do, and what I will do as mayor, is build a culture of trust and respect and collaboration. And I will support the council in implementing the will of the people.”

On a question about how CHV residents can conserve water, Brown noted that the issue had “come up in our recent Master Plan updating process,” and,

“There are a few easy steps we can take to incentivize our citizens to conserve water (including) making sure our code allows (residents) to install natural landscaping, not requiring them to cut their natural grasses to two inches tall.”

She said that, “The city can also do its part as a citizen to conserve water,” pointing to the current project to repurpose the High Line Canal as stormwater infrastructure.

Diffendal recommended residents use “more native plants so we can have the longevity of plant life without using water and reducing it.”

Stewart pointed to new rules in Aurora “limiting the size of lawns and the use of thirsty bluegrass.”

He also pointed to the need to work collaboratively with Denver Water and Continued on page 21

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Earl Hoellen said that the council’s job is “to set “our other jurisdictions policy consistent with the surrounding Master Plan us, all of our “The role of the because it local neighthe mayor is not to expresses bors, and all will of the of our regionbe an activist, people,” but al neighbors, it’s importtoo, to reduce is not to have a ant to “keep water use.” personal agenda.seeking out The modthe opinions erator asked The mayor of the comcity council bedoesn’t even munity candidates cause the will what the most vote except in of the people important can change.” duties are of the case of a tie. His priorities a city council The mayor can’t are safety and representasecurity of tive and what give raises or cut citizens and their prioritheir properties would be, taxes that fund ty, the Master if elected. open space or Plan, and Tory Levifinancial suston said, “The unilaterally take tainability. most import- a policy position Susan Maant thing for guire said the on behalf of the most importcity council is to show city, all things my ant thing for up” (and a city council participate), opponents have member “is as well as to to set the innovate. His promised to do.” policy of the – Katy Brown priorities are city and in conservation, doing that, to represent the including protecting wildcommunity and to listen to life corridors, public safety, and wellness, including Continued on page 22 mental health.

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representative. His priority will be to focus on “fiscal what the city wants, not to responsibility,” noting he set your own agenda.” Her plans “to work directly with priorities are implementing the city’s budget manager the Master Plan, supporting and financial manager to the police, and conservative get a better understanding fiscal management. of these long-term foreMark Williams named, casts.” He “representing would also the people, like to see The most to put the in“the police terests of the important department people before duty, (Mayor do a complete your own, beto be diploStewart) said, plan,” cause he isn’t matic, to find sure there are “is to establish solutions, and enough offito work with relationships cers on duty other council with other local presently. members” Rob Eber as the most mayors and said that, important du“The number ties of a city Arapahoe one duty of council repreCounty the city counsentative. He is to imnamed fiscal commissioners, cil plement the responsibility Master Plan” so I meet as his first as adopted, priority, notfrequently with pointing to ing that the the fact that (other local 2022 budget a revised contained a mayors in the Master Plan note about potential dearea) and we will be adopted later pletion of the work on projects this year, capital and before a new general funds together,” city council in 2027 and noting that is seated. He 2032, respecnoted tively, under he is “always also that he has certain ciradvocating for been “accumstances.

Williams said the interests of tive on the Citizens Adthat he did visory Task not think the CHV.” Force for the city would Master Plan” and has atdefault on its obligations, tended all its meetings. His but “there needs to be a priorities, if elected, are to change.” He also wants to look at lowering speed lim- keep CHV a great city to live in and raise a family, its and focus on diplomacy maintaining safety, security, to “solve problems and not and financial stability; to create more.” preserve open space, and Tom Conroy identified, to control air and surface “the oversight of the mantraffic. agement of the city that is To view and listen to the done by the city staff,” and thinking through important complete CHV Candidate Forum, go to www.villager decisions carefully after publishing.com. listening to all sides of an fmiklin.villager@gmail. argument as the important com duties of a city council Continued from page 21

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Cherry Hills Police Foundation hosts Car Show

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ar collectors are thrilled for opportunities to show off their prized possessions and car aficionados enjoy seeing them. A splendid show featuring a wide variety was staged at Cherry Hills Village Center on a perfect Colorado afternoon

- enhanced by refreshments and lively music

by The Busted Bones Band. Music of the band was so festive that it drew in passers-by. Prize ribbons were awarded in four categories: People’s Choice, Best of

Show, Most Likely to be Pulled Over (a Ferrari, of course) and Best Antique.

Board members of the Cherry Hills Village Police Foundation are; FLEURISH Mark Griffin (president and chairman of the board), Jan Harrison

Griffin (VP) and Jeremy Abelson (secretary/treasurer). The Cherry Hills Police Foundation is an independent not-for-profit organization that works to provide vital resources and critical support to the cherry Hills Village Police Department. The Foundation works to provide essential equipment, state-ofthe-art technology,

specialized training, educational opportunities, innovative programs and support department personnel in times of illness or bereavement. The funding provided will assist in improving public safety, promote officer safety and enhance the quality of life of those living, working and visiting our community.

Tom and Mary Conroy dressed to match their very rare 1942 Lincoln Continental

Mark Griffin’s 1929 Packard Limousine won Best Antique

Best of Show: 1966 Shelby GT 350 Presented by Bob Millen Most Likely to be Pulled Over by Police: 2018 Ferrari 488 presented by Phil Almon ABOVE: Striking interior of the Conroys’ goldtrimmed luxurious Lincoln RIGHT: The stunning grille of Joy Hoffman’s 2018 Aston Martin Stelvio displayed by hubby James Hoffman BELOW: The Busted Bones Band played throughout the show Photos by Scottie Taylor Iverson

People’s Choice: 2014 Honda CRV presented by Elvin DeMoss

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LETTERS We are fortunate to have Phil Weiser in office

His predecessor, Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman endorses Phil over Kellner. She has a pretty good handle on the office of Attorney General. Contrary to those quoted by Scottie Taylor Iverson she states, “I have been pleased by his continuation of impactful initiatives on school

safety, domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, substance abuse treatment, and childhood sexual abuse recovery.

General Weiser deserves another four years in service as Colorado’s Attorney General.”

Former Republican Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Russ

George, citing a variety of issues on which Phil Weiser has acted as Attorney General states, “This fall for Attorney General I’ll be supporting Phil Weiser.”

The Denver Post, Aurora Sentinel, Durango Herald and Grand Junction Daily Sentinel all endorse and support Phil Weis-

er. If you have read or will read the Iverson piece intended to scare the reader into supporting a candidate for office consider the comment of the Aurora Sentinel in its endorsement, “Weiser has already proved to be well suited as Colorado’s lawyer in handling the job for what it really is, not a politically expedient ploy to rook voters into thinking it should be.”

Long before Phil became Attorney General I served as the First Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Justice in Colorado. I live and breathe public protection and am keenly aware of the role of our Attorney General, Democrat or Republican, in serving our citizens. We could not be more fortunate than to have Phil Weiser in the office.

He has done an outstanding job during his first term and will continue to do so in his second term. I don’t know Mr. Kellner and have no need to disparage his service or write that I feel less safe because he is our DA in the 18th District. I wish him well in life but it is not necessary to misrepresent the role of the Attorney General and the duties of that office or try to frighten voters to advance any one person’s political ambitions.

Richard Nathan Greenwood Village

they are running for elective office. Press coverage gives Villager readers a better view of the candidates and reveals their support. In these contests, dollars are almost as important as votes.

In the story that you mention, invitees were asked why they were supporting the candidate. The questions add more depth to the function, in addition to the social and funding activities.

Regarding your endorsement of Attorney General Phil Weiser, we find him to be a competent Attorney General. Coming from an academic background, he is a brilliant lawyer, academic, and scholar.

A little history shows that he defeated very popular Arapahoe County 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler in the

2019 election. Brauchler, switched from running for governor to avoid a primary election against Walker Stapleton and ran for Attorney General. Stapleton went on to lose the election to Governor Jerald Polis.

Brauchler was out and is now a very popular morning host on conservative KNUS 710 radio, weekday mornings. His Deputy, John Kellner, was elected as District Attorney for the large 18th Judicial District.

Now, splitting into a new 23rd Judicial District for Arapahoe County with the process procedure in Amendment D on this year’s ballot proposals.

Kellner, still a reserve Marine Colonel; having served two years as District Attorney will remain in office two more years, or more, if he loses to Weiser.

Most recently his department has cracked a large auto theft ring operating in the Metro area. Kellner is tough on crime and criminals.

Weiser, endorsed by The Denver Post, and the more liberal newspapers in the state, seems to be more on the administrative side of the many functions of the AG office. He is the chief law enforcement official in the state with over 400 employees with a job to protect Colorado and its citizens.

He has been especially effective on water issues and from The Denver Post endorsement is a strong supporter of Colorado’s leadership role in protecting women’s right to have an abortion.

Colorado is leading the nation in auto thefts with the Denver Police Chief retiring

in disgust over lack of prosecution of criminals. Aurora is looking for a new police chief and is short several hundred officers.

Especially appalling was the destruction on the façade of our State Capital by a mob who also set fire to the Supreme Court building. This appears like a state that is becoming too lenient about enforcing laws against crime and criminals.

The choice is very simple for voters.

Vote for a District Attorney who is tough on crime and law enforcement or vote for an Attorney General who supports defending abortion and other consumer issues that include defending Colorado on many fronts.

Both candidates are exceptional but have different viewpoints on the job description.

Bob Sweeney/Publisher

Mark Gotto Deserves Your Vote for County Commissioner

saw his effectiveness and commitment to serve. Here’s my observations: 1) A great listener – to his constituents and his fellow electeds -he works for you; 2) Executive level leadership experience that is valuable as commissioners run departments and manage staff; 3) Understanding and experience in land use (he served on

Planning and Zoning before becoming a councilmember). Zoning and approving land uses can greatly affect your property and quality of life; 4) Innovative thinker and problem solver – there are important issues facing Arapahoe County and doing things the same old way isn’t leadership.

Mark will look outside the box for solutions;

5) Public Safety experience – as Centennial contracts with the Arapahoe County Sheriff Department for police (which is the largest portion of the Sherriff’s budget outside the jail), Mark has an in depth understanding of the needs and costs to provide you with a safe community.

I rarely endorse in political races

without personal experience and Mark is someone I wholeheartedly support. Please mark your ballot for Mark Gotto – we all benefit.

Cathy Noon Former Mayor, City of Centennial

Vote for Molly Lamar

Education.

Molly is passionate about education and supporting students, teachers, and the community to ensure that our schools produce the highest academic outcomes for every child. Molly has built strong relationships and trust throughout our community

because she has demonstrated the ability to work with everyone. She puts kids, not politics, first.

Molly continues to serve to improve education in our community in multiple ways. She is an active volunteer in schools, a licensed substitute and works to ensure

that various extracurricular programs for students work as they should. Molly is respected by her colleagues and constituents.

She knows that ALL Colorado children need access to the opportunities and resources to be successful in life and I know she will work every day to see that happen.

Please join me in voting for Molly Lamar, CD-6 State Board of Education. Her leadership and experience is the change we need.

Jennifer Churchfield Englewood

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students succeed in life and it is reflected on our students’ assessments. 60 percent of 3rd grade students in Colorado cannot read at grade level. And even worse, 70 percent of 8th grade students in Colorado are not hitting grade-level benchmarks in

mathematics.

It is imperative that our State Board of Education has representatives who have served as educators in the classroom. Teachers know and understand what is needed for a successful education. Molly Lamar

served in a Title I school as a bilingual kindergarten and first grade teacher.

In addition to bringing the perspective of a teacher to the State Board of Education, Molly would be the only mom on the board to have school-aged children while actively

serving on the board. This is the type of diverse experience needed on our State Board of Education, and I ask you to join me in voting for Molly Lamar on November 8th.

Ann Moore Centennial

Clean up the tax code

First of all, it won’t change the City’s sales tax rate. It will remain at 3.5%. It will simply change the language in the code so that all businesses doing business in the City, including remote sellers, will need to collect sales tax, rather than just businesses that have a physical address in the City.

Secondly, the code change will bring

the City in line with the 2018 Supreme Court decision to allow for the collection of sales tax on internet purchases. By making the change, the City can then join 205 other Colorado municipalities in joining the state’s new Sales and Use Tax System (SUTS), which streamlines sales tax collection and ensures that Cherry Hills Village is receiving

the tax it’s due. Without the code change, the City can’t join SUTS. Lastly, modernizing our Tax Code language avoids the risk of a reduction in revenue to the CHV and the consequential reduction in services that would follow. It could take a while to develop an alternative tax, have voters approve it and restore

services, not a disruption CHV residents or City leadership want.

I’m encouraging my fellow residents to support issue 2A and update the Cherry Hills Village City Code.

Randy Weil Co-Chair, Villagers for Tax Code Clean-Up

In the October 20, 2022 edition of the Villager a column ran authored by Scottie Taylor Iverson. It was an unqualified endorsement of the current 18th judicial district DA for the Office of Attorney General. The copy attributed to Iverson is only three paragraphs in length. The material is presented in black typeface. The rest of the column is considerable in length and set forth in bold red. It is a series of seven statements of citizens imploring voters to support DA Kellner for our state’s Attorney General to save all of us apparently from everything that threatens us and in the words of one of the quoted individuals, “… make Colorado Safe Again.”

The column doesn’t appear to be a paid ad though the layout gives it that appearance. The Villager is of course entitled to its editorial opinions as are its writers. The man against whom Iverson sounds the alarm is Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. The supporters that line up to condemn Phil and support Mr. Kellner appear to be a good lineup of local Republicans, none involved in law enforcement or public protection. Would you like to hear what other Colorado Republicans think about Phil Weiser?

Publisher’s response Good to hear from one of our many Landmark readers. Usually we don’t respond to “Letters to the Editor” unless the newspaper or writer is mentioned. In your succinct and well-written letter, you do refer to one of the events covered by one of our well-known reporters.

A brief explanation of our covering the many fund-raising events for candidates: We cover many fund-raisers when invited and have covered both political party events. The fund-raising events accomplish two things; most importantly raising badly needed funds for ever increasing expensive campaigns. Secondly, for invitees to meet, greet, and listen to candidates present why

The candidate most qualified and prepared to serve District 2 County residents is Mark Gotto. I served with Mark on Centennial City Council and personally

I’m asking you to vote for Molly Lamar for the CD-6 seat on the State Board of Education. I had the pleasure of first getting to know Molly when I served as the President of the Cherry Creek School District Board of

As a teacher in the classroom for 16 years, I am worried about education and what’s happening in our schools. Education is turning more towards political agendas instead of basic skills that will help our

Cherry Hills Village (CHV) has placed an issue on this November's ballot to update the City Code for sales tax collections from remote vendors and internet sellers. While there are many reasons for Village residents to support this issue, I would like to highlight a few of the key ones.

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HealthOne to host “Crush The Crisis” Opioid Take Back Day, Oct. 29 Hospitals to partner with local law enforcement to encourage the safe disposal of unused or expired medication HealthONE hospitals are hosting their 4th annual “Crush the Crisis” national opioid take back day to raise awareness about the dangers of opioid misuse and the importance of safe and proper disposal of unused or expired medications, on Saturday, October 29, 2022 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. The event coincides with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day and invites the community to safely dispose of unused or expired medication before they may be obtained and misused.

Prescription drug misuse is a

public health crisis in the United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021, almost a 15 percent increase from 2020.

Deaths related to opioids surged by 308% between 2019 and 2021, according to city of Denver. At least 216 deaths in Denver have been linked to drugs so far this year, per data from the Office of the Medical Examiner.

A significant number of opioid addictions and overdose deaths come from individuals accessing unused opioids from family and friends.

The event aims to educate the community on the risk of opioid misuse, while providing a safe and anonymous way to dispose of medications that may be left over from previous procedures

or other medical visits.

HealthONE is participating as part of HCA Healthcare’s fourth annual national “Crush the Crisis” opioid take back day. Last year, 96 HCA Healthcare facilities in 17 states collected 15,566 pounds of unused and expired prescription medications at “Crush the Crisis” events across the nation.

Law enforcement officers will be collecting: tablets, capsules and patches of Hydrocodone (Norco, Lortab, Vicodin), Oxycodone (Oxycontin, Percocet), Tramadol (Ultram), Codeine, Fentanyl (Duragesic), Morphine, Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) and Oxymorphone (Opana).

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Desensitized to coarseness Her 6-year-old son said, “What the heck?” Mom responded gently, but firmly, “David, do not use coarse language, Honey.” I was in the hotel elevator listening and was so moved by this verbal exchange between a mom and her son, I thanked her. She was a bit surprised.

I said, “Sometimes the words we use are so harsh, and no one seems to care or notice. By giving your son direction about this seemingly innocent statement, he will become sensitive to coarseness and will be mindful to regulate his speech. I bet he will remember your words and will grow to be a kinder and gentler person.“ She was so interested in my gratitude; she asked me about what I do. When I told her I train teachers to teach young people relationship development skills and social and emotional competencies, she wanted to continue the conversation. Being in a hurry to get to my training at the University, I gave her my business card and asked her to connect with me. These are the kind of conversations I have frequently when I travel and train.

Conversely, I was visiting a relative who has two children 8 years old and under. The television was on the whole time with either inappropriate video games that are violent and filled with coarse language, scary ghoulish content, and outright swearing. I could no longer stay silent and said, “There are children that are hearing this.” It was stunning how the parents were not even aware of what their children were exposed to.

Breathe!

The coarse culture, the normalization of sexualized content, decriminalization of drugs, the uncoupling of

marriage and childbearing, cohabitation, divorce, bullying, violence, crime, road rage, smash and grabs, lack of emotional intelligence or social and cultural norms as well as the ubiquitous nature of cell phones and electronic devices are making us all less kind and unaware of how desensitized we have become. We have become so used to a constant diet of brutal images; we can no longer see what it is doing to us. Our emotional health is suffering as we become numb to all this bombardment. We have become the frog in the pot.

This is too big for us.

Many have experienced a loss of hope. This is just the

way it is. We are emotionally exhausted and disillusioned with systems that are supposed to monitor and maintain certain paradigms of character and virtue.

To prevent / address the dulling of our senses to the coarseness of our culture, it can be helpful to think about what we are watching, what we accept, what we need to set boundaries around and how we act with others. If we became dedicated to surrounding ourselves with beauty, kindness, character, integrity, honor, and goodness, we will no longer accept the mediocrity and crassness of the culture. It starts with us, our parenting, our families, and our workplaces.

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have a ripple effect. Perhaps our language and behavior will become less coarse and become filled with good-

ness and kindness, honoring our collective humanity. joneen@myrelationship center.org

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Sports

College-level ‘free agency’ good idea, even at CU, CSU Brendon Lewis made headlines a few weeks ago. But it wasn’t because of anything the University of Colorado quarterback did in a game, or even on the field.

Lewis, who began his Buffaloes playing career in the second half of CU’s 55-23 shellacking by Texas in the 2020 Alamo Bowl and was the Buffs starting quarterback in 2021, announced that he would enter the NCAA Transfer Portal.

That means he’s taking his football and going somewhere else to play his final three seasons of collegiate eligibility.

Welcome to the club.

More than two dozen players have fled CU via the Portal since Lewis took his first snaps that December 29, including some of the Buffs’ top talent: leading rusher Jarek Broussard (to Michigan State), top wide receiver Brendan Rice (to Southern Cal), No. 1 safety Mark Perry (to Texas Christian) and best cornerback Christian Gonzalez (to Oregon).

It’s just as bleak up in Fort Collins, where new Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell has seen more than a dozen scholarship players walk away since this season began, including Dante Wright, who had caught 120 passes for more than 1,600 yards and seven touchdowns in his Rams career, and another receiver, Melquan Stovall, who had followed Norvell from Nevada.

Most of the defectors have indicated they plan to go elsewhere via the Portal.

It’s not just here, of course, and not just in football. All across America, college athletes are exercising their “free

agency” rights in search of more playing time, a chance to be a starter, a winning program or different (better?) coaches.

None, to my knowledge, have moved in hopes of finding better academics.

The NCAA Transfer Portal debuted in October 2018. It was created not for the benefit of athletes but to make administrators’ lives easier. Turns out jumping ship can be complicated, especially for the universities.

An article in the Fall 2019 issue of the NCAA’s Champion Magazine described the Portal as a “compliance tool to systematically manage the transfer process from start to finish, add more transparency to the process among schools, and empower student-athletes to make known their desire to consider other programs.”

Here’s how it works: Once a “student-athlete” asks a compliance administrator to place his/her name in the Portal, the school has two days to submit the information. The school may reduce or suspend athletics-aid, such as a scholarship, at the end of the term in which the athlete seeks to enter the Portal. If the “student-athlete” withdraws from the portal, the original school may return him/her to the roster and restore aid, if it chooses.

To switch without forfeiting a year of intercollegiate eligibility, a “student-athlete” in the so-called “major” sports (football, basketball, baseball and ice hockey) must request a waiver based on any of 11 criteria.

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participation opportunity,” injury or illness to the individual or a family member, financial hardship, death of a family member and diagnosis of an “education-impacting” disability.

Whatever its intended purpose, the Portal has quickly become the equivalent of free agency in professional sports.

In the Portal’s first year of operation, according to Champion Magazine, 15,000 student-athletes applied for transfers. Two-thirds were from Division I schools, about a quarter of them football players. Half of those were walk-ons hoping to receive a scholarship offer.

In major college basketball that first year, Champion reported, more than 700 players transferred, including 324 to teams eligible for participation in March Madness. (The national college player of the year in 2022, Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe, had transferred from West Virginia.)

Those numbers have increased annually, which brings me back to this year’s crop that abandoned the CU and CSU football programs.

Schools that lose players after working so hard to recruit them may wish it wasn’t so easy now for a student-athlete to jump ship.

Fans certainly are chagrined when a starter departs— worse when it’s a star.

But, looking at it from the player’s point of view—and his parents’—I think the Transfer Portal is a good idea.

Everyone makes mistakes in life. If an 18-yearold chooses the wrong school for him or her, why shouldn’t he or she be allowed to try to correct their mistake?

Many students attend more than one university before graduating. Hardly anyone works the same job their entire adult life.

Even professional athletes have the opportunity to join a different team, or different teams, during their playing careers.

So, good luck Brendon Lewis, and all the other “student-athletes” who are hoping the grass really is greener on the other side of the ball.

Denny Dressman is a veteran of 43 years in the newspaper business, including 25 at the Rocky Mountain News, where he began as executive sports editor. He is the author of 14 books, eight of them sports-related. You can write to Denny at dennydressman@ comcast.net.

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GV City Council rejects the policy of its Arts and Humanities Council causing one member to resign and leaving others reeling

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENT REPORTER

In 2011, the Greenwood Village City Council (GVCC) passed a city ordinance to make the powers, duties, and operation of its Arts and Humanities Council (GVAHC) official. That law, unchanged in the past decade, says that, “Monies required for the operation of the (Arts) Council shall come from donations, proceeds of fundraising events, and grants secured by the (Arts) Council, and held within the Arts and Humanities Special Revenue Fund. The City Manager shall submit for consideration of the GVCC an annual budget within the Arts and Humanities Special Revenue Fund for the reasonable expenses of the (Arts) Council, which shall also contain an estimate of anticipated revenues for the next calendar year.”

The GVAHC began awarding merit-based college scholarships to talented high school seniors planning to major in fine arts back in 1986. Through 2022, 69 students have received the GVAHC scholarships. Of that total, 40 were GV residents and 29 lived elsewhere in Arapahoe County.

At the GVCC’s all-day workshop for the 2023 city budget, held on September 16, for which there is no audio recording or official minutes, the council decided to reject GVAHC’s recommendation that it award three scholarships in 2023 to deserving Arapahoe County residents as it did last year, and for which there is sufficient money in the Arts and Humanities Special Revenue Fund, after expenses.

Although there is no official record, GVCC apparently voted 7-1 to reduce the number of scholarships (of $5,000 each plus a $500 stipend to the school for its art program) to two and to not allow any student who does not live in GV to receive it.

When GVAHC members were told of the city council’s decision, several of them reached out to this newspaper, extremely upset and confused. We, in turn, reached out to all the members of the city council to ask why they rejected GVAHC’s recommendation. Only GV City Council Members Dave Kerber, Dave Bullock, and Tom Stahl did not respond to our inquiry. On October 17, when five of the seven members of GVAHC appeared at the regular city council meeting to express their intense disap-

pointment and bewilderment at what they said was the “appalling” and “insulting” decision made by GVCC, imploring them to re-examine it prior to voting on the 2023 budget, five members of the city council responded to the

“It is insulting for the city Council to reject (GVAHC’s) recommendations.

I find this particularly appalling (because) all monies for scholarships are derived from our earnings. City taxes are not involved in scholarship awards.”

– Sandy Carson arts commissioners. Kerber, Bullock and Stahl sat silent, offering the arts commissioners no explanation or acknowledgement of their concerns before voting to pass the budget with the reduced amount of scholarship money and the policy decision that only GV residents were eligible for it.

GVAHC member Sandy Carson told the city council, “I have served on the arts council for seven years and have watched the cultural arts program increase in diversity and in attendance …

One of the board’s major objectives is to enrich the community’s exposure to… the creative abilities of talented and skilled individuals…

In keeping with our goal of the enrichment of culture…A very important aspect of…

(GVAHC) is to provide scholarships for three students who are going to major in one of the fine arts in college.”

Pointing to the city council’s decision, Carson said, “It is insulting for the city Council to reject (GVAHC’s) recommendations. We firmly object to the decision to reduce the number of scholarships and limit them to only Greenwood Village residents.

We have carefully considered the amount of money awarded for the scholarships.” She continued, “There was no rationale or explanation given by the city council for these restrictions. I find this particularly appalling (because) all monies for scholarships are derived from our earnings.

City taxes are not involved in scholarship awards.”

Carson also pointed out that most of the applications come from outside GV, which is accurate. Then Carson told the city council that if it did

not reconsider its plan to reject the Arts Council’s recommendation, she would resign her position. The following morning, she did just that.

Catherine Huggins is in her eighth year on GVAHC and commended Ms. Carson for her strong advocacy for the arts, despite being ill with stage four cancer, then said, “We are truly upset that you decided during the budget workshop (to reject) our established scholarship criteria, going directly against the wishes of the Arts and Humanities Council…To change the criteria from allowing GVAHC to choose from the pool of the best high school seniors in all of Arapahoe County to only the graduating seniors of Greenwood Village residents is diminishing the intent of the scholarship. This scholarship is an outreach program that grows the GV arts and humanities base. The Arts Council aims to increase awareness of our program.

We want to grow the arts community in GV and reach Arapahoe county. Unfortu-

We want to grow the arts community in GV and reach Arapahoe county. Unfortunately, with your action, we are shutting down our best campaign.

I am asking you to give the choice back to the Arts Council.

You have selected a group of leaders to lead the Arts Council, please let us do our job.”

– Catherine Huggins nately, with your action, we are shutting down our best campaign. I am asking you to give the choice back to the Arts Council. You have selected a group of leaders to lead the Arts Council, please let us do our job. Please let us continue to fund three arts scholarships for high school seniors in Arapahoe County.

Please let us use the money that the Arts Council generates with artist application fees for shows and from art sales, money that is coming from outside of our city boundaries, that we in turn can use for good without concern of a city boundary.

Scholarships are a good thing, please don’t make this an issue and hurt students and schools with your actions.”

She concluded with, “Our neighbors reach beyond the boundaries of our city. We

cost of higher education, and need to cultivate our friends in this greater community and hearing that this important continue to grow by including progress will be rolled back all the Arapahoe County high was deeply discouraging.”

She went on, “The idea schools. Please consider a of excluding CCHS stubit of grace and allow us the dents who attend school in opportunity to present three Greenwood scholarships “The idea of Village but next spring.” excluding CCHS live outside Kathleen Smith, former students who attend its boundaries feels principal of Cherry Creek school in Greenwood unnecessary Village but live and cruel.

High School, who has been outside its boundaries While at best, policy on GVAHC feels unnecessary the appears shortsince 2019, and cruel. While sighted and said that it was her unat best, the policy exclusive, at worst, it derstanding appears shortsighted its carries racist that the curand exclusive, at rent policy undertones. of allowing Many lowits worst, it carries students from racist undertones. er-income throughout students of Many lower-income color are Arapahoe students of color County to bussed in apply for are bussed in from from Glenscholarships to attend Glendale to attend dale arose because Creek, and Creek, and these these are there were not enough precisely the are precisely the students who who students who could students live in GV could benefit benefit most from most from an who would qualify for it. an accessible, local accessible, Based on her scholarship like this local scholarlong experiship like this ence, she de- one. Eighty percent of one. Eighty termined that the young artists in my percent of the there would AP Studio class this young artists likely be about in my AP year have expressed Studio class ten students interest in pursuing this year have each school year who are the arts in college expressed GV residents in and/or professionally, interest and plan to pursuing the and the class is also arts in college major in fine arts in college. majority-minority, and and/or proAs she pointed has been for the past fessionally, out, however, and the class few years.”

“That doesn’t is also majormean they – Alissandra Seelaus ity-minorihave talent ty, and has and this is a merit scholarbeen for the past few years. ship.” In fact, of the 27 apThe idea that some of these students would be ineligible plicants for the scholarship for this scholarship (most in 2021, only two were GV likely, the ones who need it residents.

Alissandra Seelaus, Visu- most) based on city boundary, something so inconsequential, al Arts Teacher and National seems counterintuitive to the Art Honor Society Sponsor purpose of the scholarship at Cherry Creek High School in the first place. I sincerely in GV, was unable to attend hope a closer look is taken at the meeting, but sent along the logic behind these recent a letter that was read to the choices and that the council city council. It said, “The considers restoring the scholGreenwood Village Arts Council Scholarship has been arship to its former glory and accessibility.” a long-standing tradition, Jack Huggins, Youth At earned by dozens of Cherry Large member of GVAHC Creek High School (CCHS) said, “I am honored to be part students, including myself, of the Greenwood Village in 2005, and several of my Arts Council. I attend Denstudents in more recent years ver School of the Arts. This now that I teach art at Creek. is my 7th year in an art only I have been delighted to school. I was on the Arts and observe that the amount of Humanities Board this past the award has expanded in Spring and was impressed the years since I received it by the selection process and to honor more young artists with scholarships that are also the candidates for the scholcommensurate with the rising arship. Please don’t reduce

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the number of “It has been reported residents of activity pro“It’s not our role to understand.” in the letter from the Cherry She also told grams certainscholarships surrounding Creek High School visual that Greenwood pay for anything them that, in ly, including and the pool communiarts teacher who won this outside of our city her opinion, music, art, of applicants.” Village has or will be ties support, scholarship in 2005; she is and sports.

Sam Lang- receiving a windfall of attend and that doesn’t benefit they “pick not a member of the GVAHS) ley-Hawbecause we choose to keep $628,677 as a result of participate in Certainly, us. ...I’m disappointed great candicouncil can dates to win GVAHC and thorne read this money in the city. That that you (GVAHC) those scholfind $5,000 a letter from the sale of the Denver Curtis Center is equally as insulting and Broncos through a activities. just simply cannot arships… from that sum his mother, disappointing. By way of to retain the no question Clare Langlease agreement. Further, it understand that education, it’s (GVAHS) not third scholbuilds barriabout it.” ley-HawIt stipulates that the scholarships a separate advisory board to arship… The ers to access, After notthorne, these funds be used to further art greatness of really need to be for ing that, “The city council.”

GVAHC Council Member Paul Wia commueducation Chair who for youth activity Greenwood Village GVAHC has esner wanted to know about nity is most rather than obviously was out of the programs certainly, supporting residents…” the budget for the GVAHC. accurately attracted adcountry and including music, art, the arts coun- measured by – Donna Johnston ditional artists GV Finance Director Shawn unable to atthe compasCordesen informed him that and we’ve tend the meet- and sports. Certainly, cil’s mission sionate actions of its memto support expanded our programming,” ing. It said, “the proposed expenditures council can find bers. I think it’s in GV’s best talented high GVCC member Libby Bar“I am profor 2023 are $27,550, hownacle said to the commisfoundly disap- $5,000 from that sum school seniors interests to be known for its ever the associated revenue to retain the third looking to generosity, especially in resioners, “You serve at our pointed in the is $33,050.” Wiesner pointed gard to our children, our stupursue a colwill, at our pleasure. You are city council’s scholarship…” out that that didn’t include the dents, and our future. Let all lege degree appointed by city council… decision to cost of “police, trash pick-up – Henry Siegel students in the schools in our in the visual, You are expected to cooperate or staging.” Suzanne Moore, cut the budget district be eligible for the Arts and work with and commuperforming allocation for director of parks, trails and Council scholarship.” and literary arts.

I urge City nicate with council… It is our arts scholarship program recreation, added that, SCFD 5 members of GVCC Council to reconsider their the city who is funding and and restrict eligibility to only chose to respond to the arts hosting these things. It’s not a funds (The Science Cultural those students who are Green- budget decision and follow Facilities District), which commissioners. the recommendations of separate revwood Village residents. Not are about Council Member Donna GVAHC.” enue stream only will this have a damag“Maybe the criteria $70,000, pay Johnston said, in part, “It’s Henry Siegel, GVAHC that GVAHC ing impact on the viability by which you make the direct not our role member since raises and is of the scholarship, it also “You serve at our to pay for 2018, asked in control of.” the decision of who costs of the demonstrates a lack of rewill, at our pleasure. anything annual Arts Referring to spect, support, and confidence the council to will be awarded kindly explain the September in the arts council itself…

You are appointed outside of scholarship money— on the Green our city 8 letter from All of our art scholarships are why they were program. by city council… maybe it’s a little bit that doesn’t insisting on GVAHC to funded directly from artist Council You are expected benefit us,” removing one the council in fees raised from art sales, art off.”

Member Judy which they show submission and applica- of the three to cooperate and adding, as Hilton turned – Judy Hilton she spoke offered to tion fees, as well as donations scholarships work with and and looked directly to and requiring reserve one of the three schol- back at the GVAHC members received at the Curtis Center. communicate with the GVAHC arships for a GV resident, recipients to These artist fees come from and said, “Maybe the criteria members who Barnacle said that it was “inbe residents, council.” a broad pool of Colorado by which you make the deciwere there, noting that, sulting,” explaining, “No, no, residents within and beyond – Libby Barnacle sion of who will be awarded “I’m disapno, that’s not how this relaArapahoe County. Restricting “It has been reported that Greenwood Vil- pointed that you (GVAHC) tionship works. I mean, thank scholarship money—maybe the art scholarships to stuit’s a little bit off.” just simply cannot understand you for your opinion, but dents who live in Greenwood lage has or will be receiving Council Member Anne Inthat the scholarships really a windfall of $628,677 as a this is city money and we are Village sends a message to need to be for Greenwood result of the sale of the Dengebretsen told the arts comelected to be stewards of city the local community that Village residents…

You do ver Broncos through a lease missioners that she agreed money. It is equally as insultwe do not want to assist or great work, so I’m saddened agreement.

It stipulates that with their position but that ing to be alluded to as being encourage students beyond that this is so hard for you to these funds be used for youth racist (referring to a statement she was in the minority. our city borders, even though

Landmark Towers again asks GV City Council for trash pickup, gets no response

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENT REPORTER

On October 17, Greenwood Village City Council passed its 2023 budget, including an expected $6.4 million surplus in its general fund. That budget also included data that showed that, as of September 2022, GV anticipated collecting $4 million more in sales tax in 2022 than the amount contained in its most recent amended budget.

Residents of the Landmark Towers, who had hoped to be included in the city’s trash and recycling program beginning last January, again came to the city council meeting to try to find out why they continue to be excluded.

One spoke. Kara Plender addressed the council, “I am a taxpayer, here tonight with other taxpayers who live at the Landmark Towers, to ask

you to right a wrong. Currently, the Landmark Towers taxpayers are being unjustly denied the same trash and recycling benefits of other taxpayers in GV. We all pay the same mill levy. We’ve been told that multifamily communities are excluded from the trash and recycling benefits but that is false.”

She continued, “GV has served Roundtree (Townhomes) and Hermitage (Condominiums) for years, and has wrongfully discriminated against The Landmark in excluding us…In 2022, the city also began servicing Georgetown Townhomes and Caley Ponds, also multifamily units. We ask that this discriminatory practice stop and you begin (providing) recycling and trash services for the Landmark Towers.”

Plender pointed out that, “The 2023 general fund budget has a surplus in the millions,” then said that,

since GV has refused to provide the same services to Landmark that it does to other multifamily communities, Landmark had asked Waste Connections, the city’s contractor for trash and recycling, for a proposal for the property. It was around $50,000 for a year. Noting that amount, Plender pointed out, “It’s not a money issue, when you have a surplus like that. We are purely being discriminated against. There is no reason or justification for excluding us. On behalf of the taxpayers in The Landmark, I am asking that the councilmembers from district two (Dave Kerber and Anne Ingebretsen) reconsider and make a motion to amend the (2023) budget to include trash and recycling services for The Landmark Towers.”

Plender continued, “It’s just wrong. We have about 271 units at The Landmark and 1.7 voters per unit. If this

isn’t going to work, then we would like to have a refund of about $50,000 paid back to The Landmark so we can pay for trash and recycling.

Neither Kerber, Ingebretsen, nor anyone else on the council responded to Ms. Plender, nor made any mention about the issue she raised before they voted unanimously to pass the budget as originally drafted a short time later.

We previously reported on this issue last January, when over 150 residents of the Landmark Towers presented a petition to the city council asking to be included in the city’s trash and recycling program. At a study session on January 3, 2022, city staff told the council it would cost $30,000 to do so.

Council Member Anne Ingebretsen, supported the residents, telling fellow council members, “I’ve never been comfortable with the notion

of different levels of services for different citizens,” noting that it creates “a feeling of inequity.” Council Members Donna Johnston, Judy Hilton and Libby Barnacle all questioned whether the city “could afford” to provide the service to the Landmark residents.

Council Members Dave Bullock and Paul Wiesner did not agree that there was a question of whether it was affordable, but that, according to Wiesner, “Using equity as a criterion is a dangerous, bad path to go down.” The discussion ended abruptly when Mayor George Lantz asked the council whether they wished to proceed considering the question and Council Member Dave Kerber, along with Barnacle, Johnston, Hilton and Wiesner, who together comprise a majority of the eight-member city council, said no. fmiklin.villager@gmail. com

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Then I turned the slide on its side—and gasped. A man with wire-rimmed glasses was staring back at me.

One of the first friends to see the slide confirmed my

suspicion. “Have you ever seen a ghost?” he asked. No, I replied. “Well, you have now.” I wanted to agree with him—I love ghost stories and tales of the weird and unexplained—but still, I tried to find a rational explanation. I couldn’t. It wasn’t a double exposure—my camera, an old Nikon FTN, prevented such things. Nor was it the image of a real person—I was alone while my boyfriend explored the old fire station next door. Maybe, I thought, the face was the reflection of some clouds, or some kind

of white gunk on the glass, or something behind the window. A return visit ruled those out. The pane reflected off the ground; a plank of wood leaned against it on the other side, and a picture taken from the inside looking out showed the glass to be relatively clear.

For the next several years, the face became part of the Halloween lesson plans for my ninth-grade students in the 1970s, the spark for them to write their own spooky stories. And then the mystery deepened, darkened. A former student who’d since become

a friend dropped by with her fiancé one evening and mentioned the ghost picture, which led me to drag out the old projector so Gary could see it. Susie’s reaction to it was dramatic, and though she tried to laugh it off, she was pale and shaking.

She phoned early the next day to tell me about her dream. “I was in the old house by that window. Then three men showed up and said it was time to go. They took me to the back of that old Christian Science church in Victor and gave me an operation…an

Now do you see it?

Muhahahahahahaha

abortion. I was in a bathtub… and I knew I was dying. Then they carried me downstairs to the basement. And buried me… I kept telling them I wasn’t dead yet, but they covered me over anyway with loose dirt and leaves and left me… It was so real…it didn’t feel like a dream….”

At that point, I suggested that we go to Colorado Springs one day soon to visit Clara, an old lady who’d grown up across the street from the ghost house. We’d talked on the phone, but she’d Continued on page 41

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never seen the picture.

Her casual reaction wasn’t what I’d expected. “Well, my word… It looks a little like George, the old man who lived there, but also a little like my father and mother.”

So, the face remains unidentified, and what she told us next still gives me creepy shivers.

Wanting to know if there was any factual basis for Susie’s dream, I asked if anything bad had ever happened at the Christian Science church. “Oh no, not that I know of. But it wasn’t just a church. At one time it also had apartments, some of the nicest in Victor.” Which could explain the bathtub. “Well did anything bad ever happen in Goldfield?” I continued.

She paused, shocked. “Oh my God…I haven’t thought about this in years. There was an old abandoned store that us kids had to pass on our way to school. We were so afraid of it that we’d run past it or go three blocks out of our way to avoid it. The story was that a young girl got in trouble-got pregnant--and her mother gave her an abortion and buried her in the basement before she was dead. Just covered her over with leaves and stuff.

Some of her friends found her right when she was dying.”

It was only then, after a a few moments of stunned silence, that we told her Susie’s dream.

Editor’s note: I was one of those ninth-grade students that saw that haunting photograph and wanted to publish the story after Sandy discovered all the facts.

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Coloradans will be asked to vote on 11 separate ballot questions in November

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENT REPORTER

In a few weeks, Colorado voters will be asked to choose a candidate for governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer, along with a United States Senator, Congressperson, and, in Arapahoe County, along with many others, county clerk, treasurer, assessor, and coroner. Some residents will also choose a county commissioner.

Once they’ve made it through all those choices, Coloradans statewide will be asked to say yes or no on 11 ballot questions that involve hundreds of millions of dollars.

Six of the questions were brought to the voters by Colorado citizens.

They are called propositions and they are numbered 121 through 126.

Proposition 121 Proposition 121 asks voters if our state income tax should be reduced from 4.55% to 4.40%. The state income tax, enacted in 1937, had graduated rates as high as 8% until 1987, when it was changed to a flat rate of 5%, regardless of income level.

It has remained as a flat tax, but the rate has been reduced several times, beginning in 1999. Under this proposal, a Coloradan earning $60,000 per year would save $90. One earning $500,000 would save $750.

Five of the ballot questions have come to the voters from the general assembly. They are called amendments and they are designated with letters of the alphabet.

Those that have a single letter designation would make changes to our state’s Constitution, so they require a 55% majority of the vote to be adopted. Those with a double-letter designation would change state law, so they only require a majority (50% plus one) vote to be adopted.

The three Constitutional amendments are:

Amendment D Amendment E Amendment D simply directs the Colorado governor to appoint judges to the new 23rd Judicial District. This new district was created in 2020 to separate Arapahoe County from the other three counties in the 18th Judicial District, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln, because Arapahoe has many more cases than the other three combined. This Amendment is basically an administrative task required to get the new judicial district set up because it won’t work without judges.

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Proposition 122 Proposition 123 Proposition 125 Proposition 122 would make mushrooms, sometimes called magic mushrooms, that occur in nature and contain the hallucinogenic psilocybin, legal for those who are 21 and over. It would also assign responsibility to the state to “establish a natural medicine regulated access program for supervised care,” and require the department of regulatory agencies to “implement the program and comprehensively regulate natural medicine to protect public health and safety,” including creating an advisory board to advise the department, “as to the implementation of the program.”

It would also provide, “specified protections under state law, including criminal and civil immunity, for authorized providers and users of natural medicine; and, in limited circumstances, allow the retroactive removal and reduction of criminal penalties related to the possession, use, and sale of natural medicine.”

Proposition 123 proposes Proposition 125 would alto use 0.1% of state income low grocery stores and contax collected from individuals, venience stores to sell wine. corporations, trusts and estates Presently, they can only sell for various programs that beer. support affordable housing, including financing, land for development of affordable housing, programs that supProposition 126 would port affordable home ownerpermit third-party delivery ship, local governments’ planservices of food like Uber ning capacity, and programs Eats and Door Dash, that that serve persons experiencuse aps, to deliver alcoholic ing homelessness. It has been beverages to those who are estimated that this program over 21 years old and have would gena valid ID. In erate $135 July 2020, when million the COVID panProposition 124 proposes in its first demic caused to allow retail liquor stores to year for many restaurants open additional locations on the State and bars to be a phased-in schedule so that, Affordable closed to the by 2037, there would be no Housing public, it belimit on the number of loFund, came legal for cations a liquor retail store however them to deliver could have. Until 2016, retail it comes alcoholic beverliquor stores could have only from taxes ages directly, but one location. A 2017 statute already that law expired created a path to grow that being in July 2021 and number from one to four over collected, it didn’t include 10 years. This ballot issue so it does third-party deeventually removes limits on not raise livery aps. the number of locations. taxes.

Proposition 126

Proposition 124

Amendment E extends the property tax exemption that is available to Coloradans’ 65 and over, as well as disabled veterans, to the surviving spouse of a U.S. military veteran who died in the line of duty or as a result of a service-related injury or disease. The exemption creates a deduction of 50% of the first $200,000 of actual value of a home in determining the property tax due, thus the property tax for an $800,000 home for anyone who qualifies, if this is passed, would be calculated as though it were worth $700,000, etc.

Amendment F Amendment F repeals the state Constitutional prohibition against allowing managers and operators of charitable gaming activities (e.g., church bingo) to be paid for their services. It also allows charities to be able to obtain a gaming license after being in existence for at least three years, instead of the five years required by our state Constitution presently.

The two statutory amendments are:

Amendment FF Proposition FF would increase state income taxes on Colorado’s highest earners to pay for the cost of making all school lunches in public schools statewide free of charge. The additional income tax would be paid by single people who earn at least $300,000 and married couples filing jointly who earn at least $300,000 combined.

It could cost couples who meet the income threshold up to $2000 per year and single people up to $819 per year. The additional income tax would bring in just over $100 million annually. Besides paying for school lunches directly, the program would also encourage the use of grants for 1) paying school lunchroom employees more money and 2) emphasizing Colorado-grown food products.

Amendment GG Proposition GG would require that a ballot initiative that proposes changing Colorado’s income tax system from its present flat rate (currently 4.55%) to varying rates, depending on income levels, include a table “showing the average tax change for tax filers in different income categories.” In other words, it would do the math for you.

The Colorado Secretary of State reminds us that there will be more than 400 drop boxes available to leave your completed ballots once they begin arriving in the mail on October 17. Beginning one week later, on October 24, there will also be 350 voting centers available around the state for those who prefer to cast their ballot that way. Locations and hours for voting centers and drop boxes can be found at GoVoteColorado.gov. or from your county clerk. fmiklin.villager@gmail.com

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Ballot issue recommendations from The Villager

Amendment D New 23rd Judicial District Judges - YES

three years to hold gaming events and pay the people who staff them

Proposition FF

Proposition Proposition Proposition 121 123 125

State Income Tax Reduction – NO

Reduces the state In 2020, a new law income tax from Healthy School created the 23rd ju4.55% to 4.40%.

Meals for All – dicial district out Since the tax is a NO of three of the four flat rate, the highcounties that were er one’s income, Raises state income part of the 18th juthe more benefit, dicial district. A taxes $100 million e.g., it would save yes vote allows the on individuals or someone who earns governor to reassign couples who earn $60,000 a total of judges presently in $300,000 or more to $90, but someone the 18th to the 23rd. provide free school earning $600,000 Same judges, same lunches to all public would save $900. cases. A no vote school students from It would decrease jeopardizes these K-12 across the state revenue to pay judges’ jobs. state, regardless of for schools, roads, income level. A no health care, etc. vote keeps in place We already have the current system TABOR to protect of providing free or against the state reduced-cost lunchExtend homecollecting more than stead exemption es to students from it needs. low-income families to Gold Star and doesn’t raise families - YES taxes on anyone.

Amendment E

This is a gesture to honor Gold Star families that won’t cost the government much since it is a limited exemption for a relatively small group of people.

Proposition Proposition Access122 to Natural Psychedelic GG Substances – NO

Dedicate ReveAllow Grocery nue for Afford- and Convenience able Housing Stores to Sell Programs – YES Wine – NO

Everyone agrees With the pending that there is a dire merger of the two shortage of housing, remaining major especially affordgrocery chains in able housing in our Colorado (Kroger state, but waiting and Albertson’s/ for developers to Safeway), allowing provide it on their them to also sell own isn’t solving the wine could well be problem. This would a slippery slope to put necessary funds eliminating liquor into building affordstores as a small able housing with- business while elimout raising taxes. inating competition for everything that is sold in grocery stores.

Proposition 124

Increase Allowable Liquor Store Locations – NO

Proposition 126

Third-Party Delivery of Alcohol Beverages – NO

Under current law, liquor stores will be allowed four lo- Businesses are open again and liquor cations after 2026.

Add Tax Inforstore employees This would change mation Table Allows those over that to an unlimited are well-trained to to Petitions and 21 to get “magic check IDs of purnumber of locations, Ballots – YES mushrooms” to treat but not until 2037. chasers to make psychiatric disorder Why would we desure they are 21 or Requires proponents legally. While this over. Alcoholism is cide something 15 of citizen-initiated medicine may well a problem in this years in advance measures to change be beneficial for of when it will hap- country. Why make Changes to individual income those with certain it easier to get alpen?

Charitable Gam- tax rates to include disorders, the cost cohol from the coming Operations a table showing the of the bureaucracy fort of one’s home financial impact of – YES to regulate it may and rely on delivery the proposed change outweigh the necesdrivers who are not to taxpayers in specAllows charitable sity of this treatment trained to ensure ified income groups. organizations who compared to others that they are not Why not? have been in existhat are already providing alcohol to tence for at least available. minors?

Amendment F

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HCA Healthcare Sylvia Young, President and CEO, will retire at the end of the year

HCA Healthcare’s Continental Division, which includes HealthONE in Denver, CO and Wesley Healthcare in Wichita, KS announced that Sylvia Young, President and CEO, will retire at the end of the year after a 35-year career with the company.

Young began her career as an Assistant Administrator at Aurora Presbyterian Hospital before it became known as The Medical Center of Aurora where she was ultimately promoted to CEO in 1998.

Following her success in that

role, she was named CEO and Market President of the Sunrise Health System in Las Vegas, Nevada before being asked to return to Denver as the Continental Division President, a role Young has held for the last 10 years.

Young’s focus on quality, service and financial performance has resulted in the Continental Division, including HealthONE in Denver, being named one of the Top 5 Health Systems in the United States by IBM Watson Health, among other acco-

lades. In addition, her dedication to quality has produced a number of innovations that have been scaled across HCA Healthcare.

An active member of the community, Young has served on a number of notfor-profit boards throughout her career including Colorado Concern and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

She also currently serves as a member American Hospital Association Board of Trustees Teaching, board service

and travel will be among Young’s new priorities following her retirement.

A search for Young’s replacement is underway.

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SPECIAL DISTRICTS NOTICE OF 2023 BUDGET HEARING COUNTRY HOMES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, PARCELS A AND B ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

sidered at the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority to be held at 7565 South Peoria Street on December 8, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to §29-1-106, C.R.S., as amended, that a proposed Budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Country Homes Metropolitan District, Parcels A and B, Arapahoe County, Colorado, for calendar year 2023. A copy of said proposed Budget is on file in the office of Collins Cole Flynn Winn & Ulmer, PLLC, 165 S. Union Blvd., Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado, telephone number (720) 617-0080, where the same is available for inspection, by appointment only, by the public Monday through Friday during normal business hours, (i.e. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.).

The budget hearing will be conducted as a Virtual Public Meeting via GoTo Meeting, in order to view the board meeting or participate in the public hearing visit the following link and follow the instructions to join the meeting: https://centennialairport.com/virtual-boardroom

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Country Homes Metropolitan District, Parcels A and B, will consider the adoption of the proposed 2023 Budget at a public hearing to be conducted at a special meeting of the District’s Board of Directors to be held at 13 Sunset Drive, Cherry Hills Village, Colorado 80113, on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 5:30 p.m.

Any interested elector of the Country Homes Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed 2023 Budget and file or register any objections or comments thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Dated this 18th day of October, 2022.

COUNTRY HOMES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Charles H. Kurtz President Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10880 ___________________________ NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND 2022 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2023 has been submitted to the INOVA Aero Metropolitan District (“District”). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at 9:00 a.m. on November 7, 2022 via telephone and videoconference. To attend and participate by telephone, dial 1-650-479-3208 and enter passcode 2598 369 3619. To attend by videoconference use the following URL: https://spencerfane.webex.com/spencerfane/j.php?MTID =m1acc153d01df2baf31e61e116d62cc35.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2022 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. A copy of the proposed 2023 budget and the amended 2022 budget, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver Colorado. Please contact Robin A. Navant by email at rnavant@spencerfane.com or by telephone at 303-839-3800 to make arrangements to inspect the budget(s) prior to visiting the foregoing office. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2023 budget and the amended 2022 budget, if required, file or register any objections thereto.

INOVA AERO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Kevin Kelley, President Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10881 ___________________________ CENTENNIAL AIRPORT NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Commissioners of the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority for the ensuing year of 2023. That a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of Centennial Airport, where same is open for public inspection. That such proposed budget will be con-

Any interested elector of Arapahoe County or Douglas County may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections thereto prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10882 ___________________________ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND AMENDED 2022 BUDGET ARAPAHOE LAKE PUBLIC PARK DISTRICT

Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10884 ___________________________ NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND HEARING CASTLEWOOD WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the CASTLEWOOD WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT for the ensuing year of 2023.A copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at a hearing at the regular meeting of the Castlewood Water and Sanitation District to be held at 8 A.M., on Friday, November 11, 2022.

The meeting will be held at Mangia Bevi Cafe, 6363 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Greenwood Village, Colorado. Any interested elector within the Castlewood Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Arapahoe Lake Public Park District, Arapahoe County, State of Colorado, will consider a proposed 2023 budget and, if necessary, an amended 2022 budget. A copy of such proposed 2023 budget and amended 2022 budget have been filed in the office of Seter & Vander Wall, P.C., 7400 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. The proposed 2023 budget and, if necessary, the amended 2022 budget will be considered at a public hearing at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 via Zoom videoconferencing platform. Any interested elector within Arapahoe Lake Public Park District may inspect the proposed 2023 budget and amended 2022 budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to final adoption of the proposed 2023 budget and, if necessary, the amended 2022 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: CASTLEWOOD WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

To access meeting, visit www.zoom.us, click the Join Meeting link, and type in the follow Meeting ID and Passcode: Meeting ID:880 0928 7498 Passcode:677026

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Copperleaf Metropolitan District Nos. 1 and 3-9 (the “Districts”) for the ensuing year of 2023. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2022 budgets of the Districts. Copies of the proposed 2023 budgets and 2022 amended budgets (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the District’s Accountant, Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, CO 80112, where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2023 budgets and 2022 amended budgets will be considered at regular meetings of the Districts to be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 10:30 a.m.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARAPAHOE LAKE PUBLIC PARK DISTRICT By:/s/ SETER & VANDER WALL, P.C. Attorneys for the District Board Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10883 ___________________________ NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND AMENDED 2022 BUDGET, IF NECESSARY, FOR BENNETT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 7 NOTICE is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Bennett Fire Protection District (“District”) for the ensuing year of 2023; that copies of the proposed 2023 Budget and amended 2022 budget, if necessary, have been filed in the office of the District at 355 4th Street, Bennett, Colorado 80102, where the same are open for public inspection; and that adoption of a Resolution to adopt the proposed 2023 Budget and 2022 amended budget, if necessary, will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 7 p.m. at the District’s Office located at 355 4th Street, Bennett, Colorado. The meeting will also be available electronically through Zoom. Members of the public may attend in person or may contact 720-893-7671 up to one hour before the start of the meeting for instructions on joining through Zoom. Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolution to Adopt the 2023 Budget, or amend the 2022 budget, if necessary, inspect the budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

BENNETT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 7 By /s/ Royce D. Pindell Chairman

By: /s/ ICENOGLE | SEAVER | POGUE A Professional Corporation Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10885 ___________________________ NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGETS AND AMENDMENT OF 2022 BUDGETS COPPERLEAF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 AND 3-9 ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

You can attend the meeting in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via Zoom videoconference, use the following link, or e-mail csorensen@specialdistrictlaw.com to have the link e-mailed to you: www. us02web.zoom.us/j/81779438975?pwd=Vzl6R1NHVnJ0cDlMOX NBeENMeGpRdz09 2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-719-359-4580 or 1-253-215-8782 and enter the following additional information: (a) Meeting ID:817 7943 8975 (b) Passcode:362027 Any interested elector within the Districts may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budgets or the 2022 amended budgets, inspect the 2023 budgets and the 2022 amended budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

COPPERLEAF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 AND 3-9 /s/ Paula J. Williams McGEADY BECHER P.C. Attorneys for the Districts Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10886 ___________________________

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Colorado’s new vehicle registrations declined 14.5% through Sept. vs. YTD 2021 Colorado’s decline not as steep as nation’s 16.9% drop in new vehicle sales

The Colorado Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) released its Third Quarter 2022 “Colorado Auto Outlook,” reporting the new vehicle market declined 14.5% in the first nine months of 2022, versus the same period in 2021. Comparatively, Colorado's Third Quarter decline in new vehicle registrations fared better than the U.S. market, which declined 16.9% through the same period.

LIGHT TRUCK MARKET DECLINED 13.8%

The light truck market (including SUVs, pickups and vans) held an 86.4% dominant share of the total

Colorado vehicle market.

Meanwhile, registrations were down 13.8% in the Third Quarter on 138,119 light trucks sold, versus 160,158 for the same period last year.

NEW CAR MARKET DECREASED 18.8%

The new car market share made up 13.6% of the total Colorado vehicle market on 21,808 registrations, versus 26,851 in the same period last year, for a drop of 18.8%.

ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLE MARKET SHARE INCREASED IN THIRD QUARTER

Hybrid Vehicle market share increased to 8.7% in the Third Quarter 2022 on 13,959 registrations, versus 12,924 in the same period

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND AMENDMENT OF 2022 BUDGET COPPERLEAF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Copperleaf Metropolitan District No. 2 (the “District”) for the ensuing year of 2023.The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2022 budget of the District. Copies of the proposed 2023 budget and 2022 amended budget (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the District’s Accountant, Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, CO 80112, where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2023 budget and 2022 amended budget will be considered at a regular meeting to be held on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 7 p.m.

You can attend the meeting in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via Zoom videoconference, use the following link, or e-mail csorensen@specialdistrictlaw.com to have the link e-mailed to you: www. us02web.zoom.us/j/87185759682?pwd=SHVFNHBnMU94QjBVa UNYamZUeHlLQT09 2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-719-359-4580 or 1-253-215-8782 and enter the following additional information: (a) Meeting ID:871 8575 9682 (b). Passcode:786511 Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget or the 2022 amended budget, inspect the 2023 budget and the 2022 amended budget and file or register any objections thereto.

COPPERLEAF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 /s/ Paula J. Williams McGEADY BECHER P.C. Attorneys for the District Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10887 ___________________________ CORRECTED NOTICE EAST VIRGINIA VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE CONCERNING 2022 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the East Virginia Village Metropolitan District 2022 Budget and that proposed 2023 Budges have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the East Virginia Village Metropolitan District; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2022 Budget and 2023 Budget have been filed at the District’s offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2022 Budget and Adopting the 2023 Budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. This District Board meeting will be held via Zoom without any individuals (neither Board Representatives nor the general public) attending in person.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86267550643?pwd=V3RnRGRtWkRyUlZZc1 VMWTJFZjFHdz09 Meeting ID: 862 6755 0643 Passcode: 987572 Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2022 Budget and adopt the 2023 Budget, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

EAST VIRGINIA VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By /s/ Peggy Ripko Secretary Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10888 ___________________________

2021, for an eight percent, year-over-year, increase.

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) market share reached 7.2% in the Third Quarter 2022 on 11,458 registrations, versus 8,120 in the same period 2021, a 41 percent, year-over-year, increase.

Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) market share was 2.4% in the Third Quarter 2022 on 3,803 registrations, versus 3,165 registrations in the same period 2021, a 20 percent, year-over-year, increase.

CADA President Tim Jackson said, "The good news is Colorado's new vehicle market continues to outperform the U.S. market. Other positives are a continuing pent up demand for new vehicles, along with expected improvement in the automotive supply

chain in the next 12 months, which can encourage manufacturers to lower prices on new vehicles to move more sales. On the flip side of the coin, we expect that surging inflation, elevated interest rates, higher gas prices, and a weakening in consumer sentiment may continue to put pressure on new vehicle sales. Historically, we know that a sagging economy puts the brakes on new vehicle sales.”

Other Highlights Third Quarter 2022 vs. same period 2021

The top five selling brands in Colorado include Toyota which leads with a 14.8% market share, followed by Ford (11.6%), Subaru (8.8%), Chevrolet (6.4%) and Jeep (6.3%).

Market share for the top

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND NOTICE CONCERNING BUDGET AMENDMENTS MANSFIELD HEIGHTS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2023 has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Mansfield Heights Water and Sanitation District that such proposed budget will be considered for adoption at a public hearing during a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held via zoom/audio at 3:30 p.m., on October 27, 2022.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that amendment to the 2022 budget of the District, if necessary, may also be considered at a public hearing held during the above-referenced regular meeting of the Board of Directors.

A Copy of proposed 2023 budget and, if necessary, the proposed amendments of the 2020 and 2021 budgets are on file in the office of the District located at Community Resource Services of Colorado, LLC, 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E, Greenwood Village, Colorado and are available for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file or register any objections to the proposed 2023 budget and the proposed amendments of the 2020 and 2021 budgets at any time prior to the final adoption of said budget and proposed budget amendments by the governing body of the District.

Dated: October 18, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF THE MANSFIELD HEIGHTS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT /s/ COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES OF COLORADO, L.L.C. Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10889 ___________________________ INVITATION TO BIDDERS PROJECT: Refurbishment

Decorative Italian Lights Replacement &

LOCATION: Boulevard

E. Orchard Road & Greenwood Plaza

PROJECT NO.:

65418383 X9

VOLUNTARY PRE-BID CONFERENCE:

None will be provided for this project

BID DATE AND TIME:

Greenwood Village, CO

five selling models in the state are the Ford F-Series (4.3%), Toyota RAV4 (4%), Ram Pickup (3.9%) and Chevrolet Silverado (2.8%).

Among top-selling brands in the state, Genesis led with the largest registration increase at 45.8%, followed

by Maserati at 39.1% and Tesla at 28.9%.

Used vehicle registrations in Colorado were down 11.8%, less than the 14.5% decrease in the new vehicle market. Late-model used vehicles are defined as those models that are seven years old or newer.

The Colorado Auto Outlook was prepared for CADA by Auto Outlook, Inc., an independent automotive market research firm in Exton, Pennsylvania. All data represent new retail registrations in Colorado and excludes fleet transactions.

For more information, contact Tim Jackson at 303282-1448; or email tim jackson@colorado.auto.

electronically.

All Bids shall give unit prices for change order use; however, the Bid will be Lump Sum. Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) calendar days after the Bid date and time. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any errors or irregularities, and to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications including financial statements.

The Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.

Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10890 ___________________________ NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND AMENDMENT OF 2022 BUDGET RIVERWALK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 2, AND 3 ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the Riverwalk Metropolitan District Nos. 1-3 (the “Districts”) for the ensuing year of 2023. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2022 budgets of the Districts. Copies of the proposed 2023 budgets and 2022 amended budgets (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the Districts’ Accountant, Marchetti & Weaver, LLC, 245 Century Circle, Suite 103, Louisville, Colorado 80027, where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2023 budgets and 2022 amended budgets will be considered at special meetings to be held Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 3:00 p.m., at the offices of Central Street Capital Inc., 150 E. 10th Avenue, Denver, CO 80203.

Any interested elector within the Districts may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budgets and 2022 amended budgets, inspect the 2023 budgets and 2022 amended budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

RIVERWALK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 /s/ Paula J. Williams McGeady Becher P.C. Attorneys for the Districts Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10891 ___________________________

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

December 2, 2022 at 10:00 A.M.

OWNER:

Greenwood Metropolitan District 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150 Denver, CO 80228

ENGINEER:

MERRICK & COMPANY Mr. Barney J. Fix, P.E. 5970 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 751-0741

The Greenwood Metropolitan District (the “Owner”) is accepting sealed bids for the replacement and/or refurbishment of sixty-three (63) decorative light poles and bases (the “Project”). Sealed bids will be received until the hour of 10:00 A.M. local time on December 2, 2022, by the Greenwood Metropolitan District at the offices of the Engineer at Merrick & Company, 5970 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. Bids shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to Greenwood Metropolitan District with the name of the Bidder and the Title “Decorative Italian Lights Replacement & Refurbishment” and submitted into a bid drop box in the lobby of the office of the Engineer.

Bidding documents can be requested beginning October 27, 2022, at 8:00 A.M. There will be no charge for the bid documents. Contact Barney Fix at barney.fix@merrick.com to receive the PDF documents

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2022, AT 6:30 P.M. FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING A REZONING FROM R-4 TO R-1 AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF E. HAMPDEN AVENUE AND S. MONROE STREET. THE APPLICATION IS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT THE CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, 2450 E. QUINCY AVENUE, CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, CO 80113 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FROM 8:00 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M. OR YOU MAY CALL 303-783-2729 FOR MORE INFORMATION. PROTESTS OR COMMENTS MAY BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, 2450 EAST QUINCY AVENUE, CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, CO 80113 OR PWORKMAN@CHERRYHILLSVILLAGE.COM ON OR BEFORE THE DATE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING, OR BY PERSONAL APPEARANCE AT THE PUBLIC HEARING. Published in The Villager Published: October 27, 2022 Legal # 10879 ___________________________

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DENVER BALLET GUILD YOUNG DANCERS COMPETITION NOW-JAN. 16 the registration is open. To register: follow YDC 2023 Registration. Additional Info: YDC 2023 Variation List and YDC 2023 Music. Questions ydc@denverballet guild.org REINKE BROS. HAUNTED MANSION SEPT. 30-OCT. 31. The 50+ year old family tradition continues!

REINKE BROS is not just a store - it’s an adventure! 5663 S Prince St., Littleton. Info & tickets: www. reinkebrothers.com

28TH ANNUAL LONE TREE FINE ARTS & CRAFT SHOW NOV. 2-5; Wed & Thurs 10-6; Fri. 10-8; Sat. 9-5 at the one Tree Golf Club & Hotel, 9808 Sunningdale Blvd., Lone Tree. Adult Admission $3.00. Please, no strollers.

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JUNIOR LEAGUE HOLIDAY MART NOV. 4-6. Gates Field House on the Univ. of Denver campus.

The league’s newest cookbook, “Centennial Celebrations” will be on sale. Hours: Friday, 1-8 p.m.; IS CHRISTIAN Sat., 9-5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. - 4 NATIONALISM A THREAT p.m. Tickets $10 in advance at JLD. TO AMERICA? CENTENNIAL org or at the door. VIP PRIVATE INSTITUTE DEBATE SHOPPING EVENT: Friday, Nov. 4 11 OCT. 27, discussion on Christianity, a.m. - 1 p.m. Tickets, $40 - includes nationalism, theocracy & religion parking, coffee & nibbles. in American society . 7-8:30 p.m. Panelists; Jeff Hunt, Scott HERITAGE EAGLE BEND Wasserman & Luige del Puerto.

ANNUAL CRAFT FAIR Register; check Website ccu.edu/ NOV. 5, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free centennial admission. 23155 E. Heritage Pkwy. (South of Arapahoe Rd.) SOCIAL SECURITY WORKSHOP PROJECT OUR TOWN OCT. 27, 4-5:00 p.m. at Koelbel WEEKEND OF ACTION Library, 5955 S Holly St., NOV. 10-13. Weekend of Centennial. “Savvy Social Security community service projects Planning” What Baby Boomers benefitting those in need & Need to Know to Maximize supporting important causes and Retirement Income. Discussion and organizations. Benefiting 50+local questions. Call LaVelle at 303-794- nonprofit agencies. Volunteer 4084 to rsvp. Walk-ins welcome. registration opens Oct. 17. More LaVelle Knight with Front Range info: projector town.org/sponsors Financial. or QR code in Sept. 8 Villager, page 20.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY SPOOK-TACULAR EVENT! RUE de NOEL A PARIS OCT. 27, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at STREET CHRISTMAS Arapahoe County Fairgrounds.

MARKET Lawn games, costumes, and candy. NOV. 11 & 12. Indoors - Douglas Treat Street presented by Orchard. County Events Center. 10 a.m.

Also trick-or- treat stations, petting - 5 p.m. Free Admission. Visit farm presented by Fitzsimons aparisstreetmarket.com or call 303Credit Union, live music, stage 877-9457. entertainment and more. Wear a costume and get in FREE! Kids 46TH ANNUAL L’ESPRIT de 2 and under FREE. Tickets at NOEL HOME TOUR arapahoecountyeventcenter.com NOV. 18 & 19 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in the beautiful Glenmoor Country CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE Club neighborhood. Five diverse DRUG TAKE BACK EVENT homes festively decorated by OCT. 29, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the ten talented local florists & table Police Dept. Police Dept. & Drug designers. The fundraiser benefits Enforcement Admin. will take Central City Opera and organized expired, unused, and unwanted by volunteers with the Central City prescription drugs. 2460 E. Quincy Opera Guild. In addition to the Ave. Service is free & anonymous. home tour, a holiday boutique & ticketed luncheon will be held Sat.

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in the Clubhouse. The patron party will be held at Shaver-Ramsey Fine & Custom Rugs on Nov. 17. This is a ticketed event. Tickets for the home tour Fri, or Sat. are $50 or $100 for the tour and Sat. lunch. Tickets for ’Twas the Night Before are $100$250. All tickets can be purchased at www.espirithometour.com/ buytickets. The Villager is one of the Media Sponsors.

ANNUAL TABLES EXTRAORDINAIRE Saint Catherine Philoptochos Charity Event to benefit their ministries. Tea Party & Decorated Table Viewing Wed., Nov 30, 10 a.m. -12 p.m. $45/person. Thurs., Dec. 1, 10 a.m. -12 p.m. $45/ person. Dec. 1, 2-5 p.m. decorate table viewing & pastry favor for groups only, by appointment email info@tablesextraordinaire. org to schedule, $15/person. Dec. 2, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. presale or at door $15/person.

The church is located at 5555 S Yosemite St., Greenwood Village.

NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW JAN. 7-22, 2023. The 117th NWSS will host 29 rodeo performances and a full schedule of horse shows.

Info: nationalwestern.com NOURIST MEALS ON WHEELS TOILETRY DRIVE TWO EVENTS NOV. 10 - Collection of the following toiletries: Travel size shampoo, conditioner, body wash, size lotion and toothpaste. During the 12 Days of Giving the wrapped gifts will be delivered with hot meals for 12 days in Dec. NOV 17 is the Stuff The Trunk for Subaru Share The Love.

The trunk of a Subaru will be filled with items from the grocery room and gifts for clients.

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